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The Hummingbird Hawkmoths (Macroglossum stellaturum)

Hummingbird clearwing moth at purple vervain, extending its proboscis into a blossom. Taken in a Connecticut garden, summer.

Hummingbird hawk-moth (Macroglossum stellatarum) feeding on nectar

The moth looks like a cross between a bumble bee and humming bird.

This is a Hummingbird hawk-moth in Switzerland

Hummingbird Hawk-moth (Macroglossum stellatarum) is eating nectar from red valerian flower with vibrant pink color flowers like a hummingbird. The Moro Sphinx or Sphinx Hummingbird is an insect belonging to the order Lepidoptera. It is a small Sphingidae. The Moro sphinx has a very long proboscis for foraging flowers hovering at how hummingbirds. It usually gathers nectar from flowers that other insects can not reach. Photography in selective focus of the insect flying during pollination process on red valerian flower plant in nature, during summer, spring season.

Hummingbird Clearwing Moth fluttering over a milkweed plant and drinking nectar with a blur background in its environment and habitat surrounding.

A Violet headed hummingbird is seen with its beak in a purple flower. The entire body of the bird in flight can be seen. The small hummingbird displays many colors including purple, violet, blue, green, white and black. The hummingbird is extracting nectar from the flower.

Close-up detailed photo of a Hummingbird hawk-moth (Macroglossum stellatarum) on a wildflower against green natural background.

Hummingbird clearwing moth (Hemaris thysbe) hovering at butterfly bush (Buddleia davidii), with the focus on its spiraled, pollen-covered proboscis. Taken in a Connecticut flower garden, summer.

Hummingbird hawk-moth - Macroglossum stellatarum - sucks nectar with its proboscis from a blossom of the common sage - Salvia officinalis

A White-Lined Sphinx moth, also known as a Hummingbird moth, feeding from a Lantana plant during autumn, in the Sonoran Desert Region of Arizona.

Little butterfly Macroglossum stellatarum fly over flower in garden

$The hummingbird hawk-moth (Macroglossum stellatarum) is a species of hawk moth found across temperate regions of Eurasia. The species is named for its similarity to hummingbirds, as they feed on the nectar of tube-shaped flowers using their long proboscis while hovering in the air; this resemblance is an example of convergent evolution. \nLife cycle:\nTwo or more broods are produced each year. The adult may be encountered at any time of the year, especially in the south of the range, where there may be three or four broods. It overwinters as an adult in a crevice among rocks, trees, and buildings. On very warm days it may emerge to feed in mid-winter. Unlike other moths, they have no sexual dimorphism in the size of their antennal lobes.\nHabitat and host plants:\nHummingbird hawk-moths can be easily seen in gardens, parks, meadows, bushes, and woodland edge, where the preferred food plants grow (honeysuckle, red valerian and many others). \nTheir larvae usually feed on bedstraws or madders (Rubia) but have been recorded on other Rubiaceae and Centranthus, Stellaria, and Epilobium. \nAdults are particularly fond of nectar-rich flowers with a long and narrow calyx, since they can then take advantage of their long proboscis and avoid competition from other insects. Flowers with longer tubes typically present the feeding animal a higher nectar reward. Proboscis length is thought to have been evolutionarily impacted by the length of flower feeding tubes.] Examples of such plants include Centranthus, Jasminum, Buddleia, Nicotiana, Primula, Viola, Syringa, Verbena, Echium, Phlox, and Stachys. \nDistribution:\nThe hummingbird hawk-moth is distributed throughout the northern Old World from Portugal to Japan, but it breeds mainly in warmer climates (southern Europe, North Africa, and points east). Three generations are produced in a year in Spain. \n\nThis Picture is made during a Vacation in Bulgaria in May 2018.$

Hummingbird hawk moth ( Macroglossum stellatarum ) which is a common daytime flying insect seen feeding while hovering at a red salvia flower plant, stock photo image

A female spatuletail hummingbird in the Peruvian Andes. The female hummingbird has a very short tail.

Side view of a hummingbird hawk-moth (Macroglossum stellatarum) feeding on a pink flower in a vibrant meadow

A beautiful picture of a hummingbird in a garden

A hummingbird hawk-moth in flight in the wild.

Hummingbird moth feeding on a butterfly bush blossom

Closeup of Hummingbird Hawk-moth butterfly (Macroglossum stellatarum) feeding of red valerian flowers (Centranthus ruber) in flight. Its a species of hawk moth found across temperate regions of Eurasia

A hummingbird feeds on a red bee balm blossom..

Hummingbird Clear wing Moth close-up side view fluttering over a milkweed plant and drinking nectar with a green background in its environment and habitat surrounding.

A Spatuletail hummingbird in flight about to get nectar from a flower in the Peruvian Andes.

A hummingbird hawk-moth in flight in a garden.

Hummingbird hovering pollinating flowers.

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