hawk-moth

The death's-head hawk-moth, made famous by the Silence Of The Lambs film, has turned up at the RSPB's Arne nature reserve in Dorset, as well as in Plymouth.

Heatwave brings rare moths to UK 2011

For example, a new species of hawk-moth was identified in 1986, which is significantly different from any described hawk-moth.

Henderson Island, United Kingdom 2008

That strain of intense and perhaps inhuman passion which rested with tremulous ecstasy like that of a hawk-moth over a flower, upon some tree, some hill-side — did that not tensify the quiet of the country morning, and give to intercourse with him some keener interest than belonged to the society of other men?

The Common Reader, Second Series 2004

There he encountered his sister Pat, feeding lime leaves to a hawk-moth caterpillar imprisoned in a shoe box.

A Guilty Thing Surprised Rendell, Ruth, 1930- 1970

Mr. Wallace also predicts the discovery, in Madagascar, of a hawk-moth with an enormously long proboscis, and he does this on account of the discovery there of an orchid with a nectary from ten to fourteen inches in length.

On the Genesis of Species St. George Mivart

Mysterious journeyings of fox, badger, weasel and rat; the nomadism of frogs and eels; migrations of those "water-swallows," the trout; ocean wanderings of the oleander hawk-moth, who, for all her frailty, will venture hundreds of miles from land – these movements, of which we know so little, are not mere restlessness, but planned and ordered comings and goings.

The Spring of Joy: A Little Book of Healing 1917

For tadpoles to take such action as this was as reasonable as for an orchid to push a fellow blossom aside on the approach of a fertilizing hawk-moth.

Edge of the Jungle William Beebe 1919

Radiant, she bent eagerly above the jar where the strange, slender, gray-and-brown hawk-moth lay dying.

The Danger Mark A. B. [Illustrator] Wenzell 1899

Eyre first sees Mr. Rochester; and again the scene in the summer garden, just before the thunderstorm, when Mr. Rochester calls her to look at the great hawk-moth drinking from the flower chalice.

The Upton Letters Arthur Christopher Benson 1893

This is because the sphinx hawk-moth is the favourite visitor of that flower, and comes at nightfall, guided by the strong scent, to suck out the honey with its long proboscis, and carry the pollen-dust.

The Fairy-Land of Science Arabella B. Buckley 1884