Species introCountry intro
Hemaris_tityus_- another lovely hawkmoth, not the fuciformis
Sphinx bourdon ou sphinx de la scabieuse it is in French, which is quite descriptive. I like the same bumble bee hawkmoth because that is exactly what I thought for a second.. a giant bumblebee. Taken in our garden in the Dordogne, where I had negotiated a WILD bit with the other half.
''Hemaris tityus'', the narrow-bordered bee hawk-moth has a wide range, from Ireland across temperate Europe to the Ural Mountains, western Siberia, Novosibirsk and the Altai. It is also known from the Tian Shan eastwards across Mongolia to north-eastern China and southwards to Tibet. There is a separate population found from Turkey to northern Iran.
It appears in May and June and is a lively day-flier , generally active from mid-morning to mid-afternoon. 'Hemaris' comes from the Greek.. more
comments (1)
Posted 9 years ago