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Some kind of butterfly....or not?

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milli, 06.07.2006 14:55

it has a long, thin proboscis (like a needle), it does not sit on a flower when eating nectar (it flaps its wings all the time), it hums softly and flies quickly

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06.07.2006 15:05, Dmitrii Musolin

I love insects, but I would still say that this is a hummingbird (bird)... Although we must admit that there are butterflies that behave like this...
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06.07.2006 15:15, Nilson

No, it's Macroglossum stellatarum L., no doubt. I can, of course, be mistaken with the species, but the fact that this is a proboscis (or tongue) from the hawk moth family is accurate.
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07.07.2006 0:08, Tigran Oganesov

Yazykan, exactly.
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