Hello, I've Just seen a hummingbird hawkmoth!!

Jens · #31 (**permalink**) 11-09-2006, 08:42 PM

Yeldra, glad the HBHM is still around in Scotland, which newspaper reported on them?

Turtletagger · #32 (**permalink**) 12-09-2006, 08:36 PM

Well done Cherrybee, great picture. I have just got to tell everyone about when I saw a hummer laying eggs this year and I collected four of them. They hatched and the catapillers grew up fast and the four of them have now turned into pupae. They are sitting beside me at the moment and by the look of them they could be breaking out into moths tonight or tomorrow. I have posted the story in another forum with plenty of pictures, I will endevor to tell the story here one day. In the meantime I have my camera ready to take pictures of these in captivity.

cherrybee · #33 (**permalink**) 12-09-2006, 09:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Turtletagger

Well done Cherrybee, great picture. I have just got to tell everyone about when I saw a hummer laying eggs this year and I collected four of them. They hatched and the catapillers grew up fast and the four of them have now turned into pupae. They are sitting beside me at the moment and by the look of them they could be breaking out into moths tonight or tomorrow. I have posted the story in another forum with plenty of pictures, I will endevor to tell the story here one day. In the meantime I have my camera ready to take pictures of these in captivity.

Thankyou turtletagger looking forward to seeing your photos of the newborns

bonjourno · #34 (**permalink**) 13-09-2006, 12:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Claire1969

Hello! Just joined this site as i was sat watching Tv only 20 minutes ago and saw the strangest of creatures buzzing around my trailng geranium hanging basket! Had to go on the internet to see what it was (husband was convinced it was humming bird!!) and found out it was a humming bird hawkmoth. I tried to take a picture but the light was fading. I live on the north lincolnshire border. is this a normal area to spot such a moth?

I've just seen one as well! To be more accurate, a hummingbird hawk moth appeared in my Staffordshire garden (near Lichfield) a few days ago, feedng on a clump of white phlox. flowers. I watched it for a few minutes until it flew away. Had never seen one before except in a book so I was very excited. It came back again today, to the same flowers, stayed a few minutes then cleared off. Now it's back again, so we must be doing something right here!

speckled wood · #35 (**permalink**) 13-09-2006, 01:12 PM

One of my memories of Hummingbird Hawk Moths is seeing one examining a banana skin for taste in a Benidorm street in late November 1979

Brian T · #36 (**permalink**) 13-09-2006, 02:07 PM

We live in Brittany France and have them in the garden all the time

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MazH · #37 (**permalink**) 13-09-2006, 02:30 PM

I heard there were a lot of them about this year and then I saw one while on holiday in Morpeth!

Lambfoot · #38 (**permalink**) 13-09-2006, 03:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Claire1969

Hello! Just joined this site as i was sat watching Tv only 20 minutes ago and saw the strangest of creatures buzzing around my trailng geranium hanging basket! Had to go on the internet to see what it was (husband was convinced it was humming bird!!) and found out it was a humming bird hawkmoth. I tried to take a picture but the light was fading. I live on the north lincolnshire border. is this a normal area to spot such a moth?

I've just been stalking one (with a camera!) in my garden, which is in north-west Cumbria. Never seen one this far north before.

Petal · #39 (**permalink**) 13-09-2006, 09:30 PM

I saw my first HHM this weekend, feeding on a buddlea in my garden. I'd never seen or heard of them before and like many of you thought it was an actual humming bird! I've been searching the internet to find out what it was and luckily stumbled on this great site! Well done with the great pics Bushcraft and Cherrybee!