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Bryan renton - 5 September 2003
I spotted a Hummingbird Hawk Moth today (5th September 2003) at around 5:30pm in Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire. It was feeding on my buddleija bush we had no idea what it was until I searched the web. I called my whole family out to see it, and we all witnessed it darting about then hovering whilst feeding from the flowers. It was a brilliant sight.
Sarah Terry - 5 September 2003
Have seen a Humming Bird Hawk Moth feeding from petunias in my garden this afternoon! Before coming on the website didn't know what it was and now am really excited about the whole moths thing! Hope to see quite a few more different moths very soon.
Thanks for making my day!
Thanks for making my day!
dennis seymour - 4 September 2003
moth flew into neighbour's front room. it was a privet hawk-moth. late in the year for it, looking for a warm place. I should think it came from the shrubbery of the Plymouth Hoe area here in southern devon
seymour174
seymour174
Marilyn Macfadyen - 3 September 2003
About 9pm on 27 August at the far north coast of Scotland a moth the size of a bat hovered at the honeysuckle just outside my window. Despite poor light I could see its striped body and huge wingspan and although it hovered (and darted) like the hummingbird moth its appearance was more like a privet hawk-moth. Could this be possible and has anyone else seen one? This is a fantastic web site, by the way!
Simon Ashard - 3 September 2003
New to this web site lark
Took just a few minutes to find out that I had an adult Convovulus Hawk Moth on my kitchen window-sill!
Really quite exciting
Thank you
Took just a few minutes to find out that I had an adult Convovulus Hawk Moth on my kitchen window-sill!
Really quite exciting
Thank you
Brian Curtis - 3 September 2003
Exellent website.I have identified several moths that I have spotted in my garden on your pages.Like many other web users I am also being visited by the Hummingbird Hawkmoth.I live in Somerset and one has been visiting my garden for the last three weeks.I was already familiar with this moth because I have had visits in previos years.
May your website continue to flourish.It is a real pleasure to view it.
May your website continue to flourish.It is a real pleasure to view it.
Graham Wallis - 3 September 2003
Ian,
Many thanks for a very useful and informative website. In your absence Shane Farrell was most helpful in identifying a moth photo for me (I'm a novice, it was an Old Lady).
Very best wishes,
Graham Wallis
Many thanks for a very useful and informative website. In your absence Shane Farrell was most helpful in identifying a moth photo for me (I'm a novice, it was an Old Lady).
Very best wishes,
Graham Wallis
denise anderson - 3 September 2003
wow! such excitement yesterday morning in sunny eastbourne at 10am i was trying out hubbies new toy(digital camera) when this unbelievable creature came into my garden it stopped on some lobelia then hoovered on my isotoma took me all morning to find out it was a hummingbird moth. i have a couple of fab pictures will try to send them. Will i get to see it again???? or was this just a special visit?
Sue Jordan - 2 September 2003
Thanks for the clear identification pages!
I saw a hummingbird hawkmoth last night on my Buddleia - the first time up-close (the only time before I was convinced it was a Hummingbird that had escaped from Bristol zoo!) It was quite a sight - obviously a UK hatch given that it's early September?
Thanks
Sue
I saw a hummingbird hawkmoth last night on my Buddleia - the first time up-close (the only time before I was convinced it was a Hummingbird that had escaped from Bristol zoo!) It was quite a sight - obviously a UK hatch given that it's early September?
Thanks
Sue
jill - 2 September 2003
We found a huge moth in our bathroom in Northampton neither of us had ever seen one like it before and we have both lived here all our lives.On accessing your great site I soon located it RED UNDERWING mystery solved!
Rod & Pam Lucas - 1 September 2003
7:30pm Monday 1st September 2003. My wife Pam called me to the flowerbed outside our backdoor here in Suffolk to see an unusual insect 'humming' around the impatiens & geraniums. She had seen it at various times during the day. We thought it was called a humming bird moth. Came on-line and in moments found your excellent site which confirms it to be the Hummingbird Hawk Moth. We'd only seen photos of them before today.
Andrew - 1 September 2003
Saw my fist Humming bird hawk Moth briefly in 1996 although after several glasses of wine that day we were convinced we had seen a real humming bird :) Didnt see any again until this year when we have seen them several times, after watching one just a few minutes ago on the flowers by the back door I had to find out what it really was, now I know thanks to your site :)
Jenni Dahlmann - 31 August 2003
eure page ist echt toll !!!
Trev Kirby - 30 August 2003
Great site
Today i saw for the first time in my life two hummingbird hawk moths in my garden.
They were feeding on nectar from the petunia flowers in the beds.
They were really fantastic to watch, such long tongues and fast wings
This was in Chittlehampton North Devon.
Today i saw for the first time in my life two hummingbird hawk moths in my garden.
They were feeding on nectar from the petunia flowers in the beds.
They were really fantastic to watch, such long tongues and fast wings
This was in Chittlehampton North Devon.
Tref Jones - 30 August 2003
Thanks to your search engine and ID guide I now know that i saw a Hummingbird Hawk Moth in corwall on holiday last week. (Last week of August). It was nice to see and also i now know it was a rare spot!
Paula Jonathan - 30 August 2003
I have just had the delight of encountering a Hummingbird Hawkmoth in my Coventry garden. Amazing.
Paulo Henrique Lopes Rodrigues - 29 August 2003
An excellent SITE!
Great images indeed! As well as very easy to identify the species!
I'm a fan of butterflies and I became part to a group in Portugal that takes care of the Portuguese butterflies: www.tagis.net
Keep on going!
My best regards
Great images indeed! As well as very easy to identify the species!
I'm a fan of butterflies and I became part to a group in Portugal that takes care of the Portuguese butterflies: www.tagis.net
Keep on going!
My best regards
Derek Crawley - 29 August 2003
Looks as if this site is going to be a regular visit for me. I identified a moth I found on my kitchen wall this morning in minutes. [Stenoptilia bipunctidactyla]. Perhaps sheltering from the first rain for several weeks in this part of the world. Well done..I look forward to receiving e-mail update.
Derek Crawley
Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex
Derek Crawley
Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex
Robert Gifford, from Poole, Dorset - 28 August 2003
Having been a bird ringer for the last 15 years, this year I have been really interested in butterflies & moths due to the weather over the last few months. With a little help from some knowlegable friends I have been helped in identifying many species new to me. Each summer I spend 2 weeks on the Dorset coast catching migrant birds so next year with the help of your v.good web site +(links) I am going to make myself a moth trap and combine birdringing with moth catching, it will give me a different dimension to migration. I will be coming back to your web site on a regular basis, it is excellent for a beginner like myself.
Jean Willis - 28 August 2003
Your web site had confirmed that what I saw last Monday was in fact a hummingbird moth. I grabbed my digital camera and have two very good close up photos of it. It was feeding on some blue flowers and has been back every day since.
Eric Oliver - 27 August 2003
I found the caterpillar of the sycamore moth on a path in Barwell, Leicestershire. Many sites identified it, but your site gave me the picture of the moth. Is it moving Northwards?
Jack Squires - 27 August 2003
wow! I just used your site to identify a beautiful Hummingbird Hawk-moth that was feeding on the flowering jasmine in our garden. I live in mid bedfordshire and i guess with the wind blowing from the south there may be more around. Has anyone else seen them?
It's the first time I used the site and it's excellent. Took me all of 2 minutes to find what i was looking for. Brilliant!
Jack
It's the first time I used the site and it's excellent. Took me all of 2 minutes to find what i was looking for. Brilliant!
Jack
Carrie-ann buckley - 27 August 2003
I really liked this site as i was doing a project.especially the thumb nail views
very good clap clap clap clap whistle whistle
really this site was goooooood
very good clap clap clap clap whistle whistle
really this site was goooooood
Stuart Preston - 27 August 2003
I found your site very interesting. The reason I was looking is that, last night a moth hit me on the head and has settled by my computer. I've never seen it's type before. It is about 1 inch in wingspan and about 1/2 an inch in body lenghth. It has a dark, mottled bar along it's wings and a dark spot on each wing. It is fawn in colour and looks peppered along it's abdomen and it's lower set of wings.
The closest moth in your index,in looks and type, is The Lime-speck Pug.
Is this a new breed or is it a relative or female of said pug?
I would be grateful for an answer if you can give me one.
Thankyou.
The closest moth in your index,in looks and type, is The Lime-speck Pug.
Is this a new breed or is it a relative or female of said pug?
I would be grateful for an answer if you can give me one.
Thankyou.
Charmian parkin - 27 August 2003
Thanks! I'm a complete beginner, and the dozens of 'butterflies' I've seen flying by day recently in my garden (especially on teasels and golden oregano - loads of them!) are apparently Silver Y moths. Smashing photographs made idenfication easy.
chris coates - 27 August 2003
Just seen my first Hummingbird Hawkmoth on the patio visiting geraniums and fuschias but never touching down - amazing sight as I have never in my 56 years seen one before - looks to be similar to many other's experiences this year. Will look out for another visit now that I have seen your website - very useful thank you. Poole, Dorset.
bill dicks - 26 August 2003
I thought this was a really well-presented site, with the photos and not too much text really hitting the spot. However, I had to search well over 2000 records to find my moth, \"The Herald\" and my daughter was asleep by then! If you can find the time, it would be great if you could put in two things: 1. a search by attributes facility (e.g. colours, shapes, sizes); and 2. a slide show facility so you can whizz through the pictures without clicking on next. Keep up the good work - I really admire people who trouble to maintain specialist sites like this.
regards
Bill
regards
Bill
S. Parrott - 26 August 2003
Have just realised that there are hundreds of caterpillar photographs! I just wasn't looking at the tabs at the top of the page!
It just makes the site even better!
It just makes the site even better!
S.Parrott - 26 August 2003
Very pleased to have found this terrific site.
The photographs are so clear - it makes identification much easier.
Are there any plans to include caterpillars?
I find it difficult to identify some of the ones I find in the garden.
I'll definitely be back!
By the way I've seen a hummingbird hawk moth too, here in Oxfordshire. They have caused much excitement. I hope people will value the other, less noticeable moths too!
The photographs are so clear - it makes identification much easier.
Are there any plans to include caterpillars?
I find it difficult to identify some of the ones I find in the garden.
I'll definitely be back!
By the way I've seen a hummingbird hawk moth too, here in Oxfordshire. They have caused much excitement. I hope people will value the other, less noticeable moths too!
Sue Stewart - 26 August 2003
I now know what the beautiful moth that I've been watching is called - the Hummingbird Hawkmoth. It's been here, in Andover, feeding on my impatiens/busy lizzie flowers for about three weeks now. Wonderful to watch and to hear the hum of its wings. It is never still! (Good web site by the way!)