The hummingbird hawk-moth is partial to flowers with tube-shaped petals and uses its long, curled proboscis — an elongated sucking mouthpart — to extract nectar from the flower's center.

Scientists have yet to measure the hummingbird hawk-moth’s top speed, but another related species of hawkmoth, Manduca sexta, was clocked at 12 miles per hour (5.3 meters per second).

Stunning photos show a rarely-seen hummingbird hawk-moth captured in full flight, beating its wings at 80 times a second while feeding from a flower. Wildlife photographer Andrew Fusek Peters, 58 ...

A hummingbird hawk-moth hovers above a verbena in the garden of the Philippsruhe castle in Hanau near Frankfurt, Germany, Thursday, Aug. 7, 2003 (AP Photo).

One of the most striking features of the hummingbird moth is its appearance. These moths typically have a robust, furry body resembling that of a bumblebee — especially the narrow-bordered bee hawk ...

Hummingbird hawk-moth (Macroglossum stellatarum), flying while feeding, on a geranium blossom. (Image credit: Alamy Stock Photo) Females lay about 200 tiny, pale-green eggs — each carefully deposited ...

Just as when we humans reach for objects, the hummingbird hawk moth uses its visual sense to place its long proboscis precisely on a flower to search for nectar, according to biologists. This is ...

A scheme to plant hundreds of goat willow trees was launched in 2023, in a bid to attract the insects to the county, after ...