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Hummingbird Hawk Moth

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  • JacquimcmahonJacquimcmahon Posts: 1,039
    Regular visitors here. They drive the cat crazy moving so fast from plant to plant.
    Marne la vallée, basically just outside Paris 🇫🇷, but definitely Scottish at heart.
  • thevictorianthevictorian Posts: 1,279
    Well I'd never seen one before but guess what was busy on the valarian today :)
  • nigeltaylor11ajAuETly_nigeltaylor11ajAuETly_ Posts: 16
    Have seen two this year in my garden and at least one every year for the last seven years.
    Valerian and phlox being the most popular plants that they feed on.
  • Dave HumbyDave Humby Posts: 1,145
    Had two earlier this week on the lavender border. Not sure I’ve ever seen one before, let alone two at the same time. Fascinating little critters. 
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    Slow-worm said:
     Imagine if they were the size of cats!

    Imagine if he had actual humming birds here. We have parakeets, why not escaped hummers?
  • RedwingRedwing Posts: 1,511
    Fire said:

    Imagine if he had actual humming birds here. We have parakeets, why not escaped hummers?
    It's unlikely anyone keeps caged hummingbirds in the UK or anywhere in EU, probably very illegal.   Plenty of people though have seen HHMs and are convinced they've seen hummingbirds. 
    Based in Sussex, I garden to encourage as many birds to my garden as possible.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    ... just imagining
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    The only one I ever saw in my garden was on the valerian.  I think it was white. We didn't have red at the time.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • bcpathomebcpathome Posts: 1,313
    One in my garden last week on my red million bells .Never seen one before ,thought it was a bird to begin with .
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