
Hummingbird Hawk-moth butterfly sphinx insect flying on red valerian pink flowers in summer

by Gregory_DUBUS
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Hummingbird Hawk-moth butterfly sphinx insect flying on red valerian pink flowers in summer
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Gregory_DUBUS
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Photograph - Photograph
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Hummingbird Hawk-moth (Macroglossum stellatarum) is eating nectar from red valerian flower with vibrant pink color flowers like a hummingbird. The Moro Sphinx or Sphinx Hummingbird is an insect belonging to the order Lepidoptera. It is a small Sphingidae. The Moro sphinx has a very long proboscis for foraging flowers hovering at how hummingbirds. It usually gathers nectar from flowers that other insects can not reach. Photography in selective focus of the insect flying during pollination process on red valerian flower plant in nature, during summer, spring season.
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February 7th, 2019
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