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- noun Plural form of
hawkmoth .
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Examples
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Hedrick's team used 1,000 frame-per-second video cameras to watch hawkmoths and hummingbirds hovering before a feeder.
Wired Top Stories 2009
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Using high-speed video, biologists modeled how hummingbirds and hawkmoths use asymmetrical flapping to make slow, mid-air turns.
Wired Top Stories 2009
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I find myself wondering whether the lengthening of our local summers over the last couple of decades — and their earlier onset — is making it easier for increased numbers of the hawkmoths to get here from France: or whether maybe we now have a breeding population of our own in Ireland ….
Hummingbird hawkmoth: a bit of video | Diane Duane's weblog: "Out of Ambit" 2006
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Before we went away to CopperCon, Peter caught a few seconds of one of the local hawkmoths “tanking up” while the white buddleia bush in the front rockery was in bloom.
Hummingbird hawkmoth: a bit of video | Diane Duane's weblog: "Out of Ambit" 2006
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Nearby, so close that one can reach out and touch them, the pale Cereus moons expand, exhaling their sweetness, subtle breaths of fragrance calling for the very life of their race to the whirring hawkmoths.
Edge of the Jungle William Beebe 1919
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It is not a perfect situation, the relationship between coyote tobacco and hawkmoths.
WN.com - Articles related to Are Bees Addicted To Caffeine And Nicotine? 2010
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It is not a perfect situation, the relationship between coyote tobacco and hawkmoths.
WN.com - Articles related to Are Bees Addicted To Caffeine And Nicotine? 2010
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Even the hawkmoths who haunted my window with such passion in dark nights, abandoned my candle for sky-borne glory.
Knocking From Inside 2010
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Conversely, the hawkmoths in the family Sphingidae are strong fliers, and so, of the 47 species that occur on Hispaniola, only
WN.com - Articles related to Japan, Pacific nations deny report of trading cash for whaling votes 2010
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Conversely, the hawkmoths in the family Sphingidae are strong fliers, and so, of the 47 species that occur on Hispaniola, only 7 are endemic.
WN.com - Articles related to Japan, Pacific nations deny report of trading cash for whaling votes 2010
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