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  HUMMING BIRDS
of Costa Rica 6

 

Humming Bird Moths

 

Hummingbirds  do  not  have  striped  backs.   They  do
not  usually appear  to  be  brown.   They  will  not  let  you 
approach  them... to  get a  closer  look.   If  you  believe  you  saw
a  brown, striped  hummingbird, you  probably  saw  the  perfect  hummingbird  look-a-like. 
 

Large  Hummingbird  moths... have  disappointed  many  people,
who  believed  that...  they  were  seeing  their  first  hummingbird.

 


 


White-lined Sphinx Moths


The  Hummingbird  Hawk-Moth  (Macroglossum  stellatarum), 
is  a  moth  belonging  to  the  family,  of  Sphinx  Moths 
(Sphingidae). This  family  is  familiarly  known  as  the 
Hummingbird  moths.   The flight  of  all  Sphinx  moths, is 
similar to  the  flight  of  true  Hummingbirds.

 

The  Hummingbird  Hawk-Moths...



Also  go after  flower  nectar  and  they  fly  like Hummingbirds .  
It  changes  position  very  rapidly, when  flying  from  one  flower
to  another.   In contrast  to  true  Hummingbirds (which  live  in  the tropics),  you  may  watch  the  Hummingbird  Hawk-Moth, in 
Germany and  the rest  of  Europe.

 


Many  people  in  Europe...  think  they  have  seen  a 
Hummingbird,  because  they  have  never  heard  of  the 
Hummingbird  Hawk-Moth.    That's  no surprise,  because 
the Sphinx  Moth,  looks  just  like  some  Hummingbirds,
when  it  is  flying.
 

It  has  a  grey  body  and  a  black  tail...  with  white  spots 
at  the  end.   It  moves  so  fast  that  it  is  difficult  to  see  its
antenna and  its  long  proboscis,  in  which  it  sucks  nectar,
out  of  flowers.   Its wing-spread  is  40  to  50  mm.

 


The  Hummingbird  Hawk-Moth...  lives  in  warm  regions  of 
the  Pale-arctic  and  the  Ne-arctic.    The Pale-arctic, is  a sub
region  of  the  Holo-arctic  region  and  begins  at  the  Islands of 
Kanars and  North  Africa,   going  to  Europe  and  East  Asia,
to  Japan,  Kurile  Islands  and  Kamtschatka .  The  fauna  of  this 
big  region,  is  nearly
 homogeneous.


The  Neo-arctic...  is  also  a  sub  region  of  the  Holo-arctic,
and  contains  North  America.    The  Hummingbird  Hawk-Moth,
is  a  long  distance  migratory  moth,  which  flies  to  the  polar  region, and  high  up  into  the  mountains, up  to  the  tree-line.
 

These  Moths,  fly  from  the  beginning  of  summer, in  the  middle
of  Europe  and  can  be  seen  in  great  numbers.   They  can  be  watched  from  the  end  of  June, and  more  often,  from  August 
to  autumn.  Unlike  most  moths,  they  only  fly  in  daylight.
 

The caterpillar  lives... from June  to  October.  In warm regions,
the  cocoon  survives  the  winter.   The  cocoon  will  survive the  winter, in  most  parts  of  France  and  southern  England, as  the  caterpillar  usually  finds  a  sheltered  spot.   Unfortunately  many  gardeners... destroy  them  in  the  spring, unaware  of  what 
they are.
 


The Snowberry Clearwing Moth...

 

Is  a  small  hummingbird  moth,  which  more  closely 
resembles  a  large  bumblebee,  rather than  a  hummingbird.

 


Like  other  hummingbird  moths,  this  one  flies  during  daylight. 
A  similar,  but  larger, sphinx  moth,  is  the  (Hemaris  thysbe) Hummingbird  Clearwing  Moth.  Which  plants  does  it  visit
most  often  in  a  garden?   Coral  honeysuckle  and  butterfly 
bush.

 

Tersa  Sphinx  Hummingbird  Moth...


 

 

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