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Humming-bird Hawk-moth

Macroglossum stellatarum

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Description:

It was moving quickly between flowers ad the light was not good so I pushed the ISO to 1600 and the last pic was 1/4000 second. In pic 3 the proboscis is curled up between flowers. This is the first time I have knowingly seen one of these, luckily I had the right camera with me. The first 3 pics were ISO 160, 1/100 second, hence the wings cannot be seen.

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Garden

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PublishedAugust 29, 2013

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