🌸🦋 Meet the Lucky Hummingbird Hawk-Moth! 🍀 | Unbelievable facts

Looking like an Elephant's trunk, Elephant Hawk-moth caterpillars are large with eye-spots to deter predators. #MothsMatter Feeding on Rosebay Willowherb and fuchsias, they can be found right now across the UK and Ireland. butrfli.es/Elephant_Hawk Video thanks to Hugo Nissen | Butterfly Conservation

Have you ever seen a Death's-Head Hawk-moth caterpillar? #MothsMatter The Death’s-head Hawk-moth is the bad boy of the moth world. Strikingly large and rather rare in the UK; only a handful make it over from the Continent each autumn. https://butterfly-conservation.org/news-and-blog/meet-the-deaths-head-hawk-moth | Butterfly Conservation

THE MAGIC OF A HUMMINGBIRD HAWK-MOTH THAT APPEARED AS WE WERE RECENTLY FILMING About six weeks ago, Anita Ridley and I were filming some final footage with Tim Wheater for our meditational journey ‘Pilgrimage’ when we took a break and went outside to the garden. We were mesmerised by the most beautiful hummingbird hawk-moth, hovering just like a hummingbird, as it fed on nectar with its long proboscis. Its wings were moving so fast that it made an audible hum. It’s a day-flying moth, migrating t