Hummingbird Hawk Moth

[reckless]

I saw one of these hovering by our buddleia bush about a month ago in the very hot weather. Beautiful little thing, bright orangey pink wing colour caught my attention.
It seems they're quite rare in UK. Has anyone else seen one?

 

[Speve]

Yes we have had several this year and they come into the conservatory

 

[Pappy]

We had one in the garden a month ago. My mum has had a few, she lives in Norfolk.
They are fascinating things. First time I saw one in France I couldn’t believe what I was seeing.

 

[L' Hobo]

We have had several around here in the last few summers what I also had on my garden path this summer was an Elephant Hawk Moth Caterpillar (never seen one before and looked very scary, took picture but, at the moment, cannot download)

 

[SpeedyDux]

It is a beautiful day flying moth. I saw one on my buddleya in August, the first for several years. I hope they are making a comeback.

This has been a poor year for butterflies except large whites. Only seen a couple of red admirals and unusually no peacock ones.

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[funflair]

We had this one in the garden a few years ago,



They like Fuschia apparently,

EDIT the reply was to "elephant hawk moth" comment

But I did snap this a few years ago in the Czech republic,

 

[xsparks]

 

[L' Hobo]

We had this one in the garden a few years ago,

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They like Fuschia apparently,

EDIT the reply was to "elephant hawk moth" comment

That's the one, it was about 2inches long and when I touched it, it withdrew its head & neck and those first two markings just looked like it's eyes. Thankyou!

 

[xsparks]

 

[Vanman]

Saw one at the American Museum Gardens near Bath earlier this month

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[SRC]

I saw one of these hovering by our buddleia bush about a month ago in the very hot weather. Beautiful little thing, bright orangey pink wing colour caught my attention.
It seems they're quite rare in UK. Has anyone else seen one?

We had one in our garden last month

 

[POH]

Hate the dam things

 

[Garfields]

We have them some summers but not seen any this year. South East Scotland.

 

[GirlyVanGirly]

We had quite a few this summer, they seemed to like our salvias best!

 

[PP Bear]

I saw one of these hovering by our buddleia bush about a month ago in the very hot weather. Beautiful little thing, bright orangey pink wing colour caught my attention.
It seems they're quite rare in UK. Has anyone else seen one?

Here we go, aren’t they lovely, I filmed this a few weeks ago.

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[Madcaravanner]

I saw one of these hovering by our buddleia bush about a month ago in the very hot weather. Beautiful little thing, bright orangey pink wing colour caught my attention.
It seems they're quite rare in UK. Has anyone else seen one?

They have been reported in huge amounts this year many are from people who've never seen them before
They're beautiful little things - but the ones in France don't half move faster than the ones here

 

[L' Hobo]

but the ones in France don't half move faster than the ones here

What do you expect after spending hours, on a RIB, in the English Channel?