Hummingbird Moth

“A considerable number of insects belonging to Sphingina have transparents wings. Among them is the humming-bird moth, Sesia pelasgus, often seen at evening in our gardens during the moths of June and July hovering like a humming-bird over the flowers and sucking their nectar with its long tube.” — Goodrich, 1859

Keywords

bird, moth, kmoths, Lepidoptera, Insect, articulata, humming, sphingina

Galleries

Lepidoptera: Moths and Butterflies

Source

S. G. Goodrich Animal Kingdom Illustrated Vol 2 (New York, NY: Derby & Jackson, 1859)

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