‘Grey lump with orange wings’: hummingbird hawk-moths descend on UK gardens

‘Grey lump with orange wings’: hummingbird hawk-moths descend on UK gardens

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Boom in migrating moth sightings put down to hot weather, strong winds and food scarcity in Europe He had just sat down to dinner in the garden when a speedy visitor whizzed by – a “grey lump with orange wings”, recalled Luke Burstow, from Sussex. It was a hummingbird hawk-moth , a flying insect tha

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