Humming bird hawk moth

[PositronicRay]

Just seen my 1st one of these, flitting about on some valerian. Fascinating.

[eybic]

They're lovely, I've had to save a couple of them in France when they got caught on some flowers.

[baker77]

I managed to get a video of one a couple of years ago, fluttering around the flowers in one of our window boxes. Beautiful creatures.

https://youtu.be/xe1mIdSIr0g

[Nightmare]

That is an awesome video!

I love hawk moths but we only get elephants round here it seems....would love to see a hummingbird one

Edited by Nightmare on Monday 17th June 12:48

[baker77]

Nightmare said:

That is an awesome video!

I love hawk moths but we only get elephants round here it seems....would love to see a hummingbird one

Edited by Nightmare on Monday 17th June 12:48

Thanks, that video is in slo-mo, so you can really see how fast their wings beat. That was the first time we saw one too.

[sunnygym]

Saw two of these for the 1st time last summer, amazing didn’t even know they existed.

[Mobile Chicane]

I saw a hummingbird hawk moth on Leith Hill, Surrey a week or so ago. A first for me in the UK. I didn't realise they made it this far north as previously I'd only seen them in southern Europe.

[liner33]

Get them in the garden some years, was blown away the first time I saw one and we are almost in Oxfordshire

[PositronicRay]

Defiantly coming north, they seem to love valerian, which is bountiful around here.

You can add your sighting onto the moth and butterfly website.

[Boosted LS1]

In the last few years I've seen just 2. One at Long Eaton and the other at Hathersage, both Derbyshire.