Hummingbird Hawk Moth

The Hummingbird Hawk Moth, Macroglossum stellatarum, is a species of the butterfly family, lepidoptera, and has an unusually long proboscis which is curled in flight and only extended when the moth hovers - like a hummingbird - near a flower from which it wishes to extract the nectar. I have never seen one in the UK, but there were certainly plenty of them around the Buddleia by the swimming pool on this first really hot day of our break.


Nikon D800 + 105mm f2.8 macro