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what is that moth?

  • 26-06-2005 10:26pm
    #1
    crazy days
    Registered Users Posts: 90 ✭✭


    just saw the weirdest moth, it was really fast and sounded like a humming bird, it's wings were beating amazingly fast as it hovered over flowers, it had this huge toungue and just hovered there feeding, i took a picture but as it moved so fast it did'nt turn out so good, anyone got any idea what it is? it was quite big and had a red marking on it.


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  • #2
    Mothman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,498 ✭✭✭Mothman


    crazy days wrote:
    just saw the weirdest moth, it was really fast and sounded like a humming bird, it's wings were beating amazingly fast as it hovered over flowers, it had this huge toungue and just hovered there feeding, i took a picture but as it moved so fast it did'nt turn out so good, anyone got any idea what it is? it was quite big and had a red marking on it.

    Hummingbird Hawk-Moth

    http://ukmoths.org.uk/show.php?id=1469

    Actually saw my first one this year today.


  • #3
    crazy days
    Registered Users Posts: 90 ✭✭crazy days


    Yep thats the one, cheers mothman.


  • #4
    PH01
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,120 ✭✭✭PH01


    Ya I saw one of those as well. They're really cool.
    I was about to head off to work one morning when I saw one of those buzzing around the garden (in Dublin south - a couple of summers ago). Very exciting. Sent off a email to yer man Mooney, of ...Goes Wild fame, to ask if I was seeing things. Glad to say I wasn't and he also said that they're a regular occurance in Ireland but that no larva were ever found. So I guess they're only blow-ins.


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