What is an insect that looks like a hummingbird?

Hummingbird moth, scientific name: Macroglossum stellatarum? (Linnai, 1758) is an insect belonging to the genus Chrysomya. Known as the "four unlike" in the insect world, it moves like a butterfly during the day. Its mouthparts are long beaks with swollen tentacles at the top, and its wings are colorful and dazzling. Unique and strong, with grayish brown front wings decorated with black lines, similar to both sexes. Larvae is white, with a fat body and a small black head. Overwintering in dry vines.

They look like bees, flying among hundreds of flowers in summer and autumn, feeding on nectar and making a clear and audible buzz; It is also like a hummingbird in South America. It doesn't sleep at night, comes out during the day and seldom rests. When feeding, it hovers among the flowers and flies in front of them like a hummingbird. Originated in southern Europe and North Africa, spanning Asia to Japan.

Hummingbird hawk moth is called the "four unlike" in the insect world. Because hummingbird moths are first like butterflies, with long beaks and swollen tentacles at the top.

The wing surface is dark grayish brown, with black longitudinal stripes on the front wing and orange-yellow on the rear wing. It is a kind of moth and a close relative of butterfly. The worm's wings spread out about 50 mm. Unlike a butterfly, it has a thick belly. This insect is very similar to a hummingbird in terms of weight, appearance, living habits and flying speed except that it has a pair of antennae on its wings and no feathers, so it is named hummingbird moth by biologists.

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Zhaoqing, August 20th (Huang Yaohui Zheng Daxiong) The hummingbird moth, known as the "four unlike" in the insect world, appeared in Dinghushan, Guangdong. A spokesman for Zhaoqing Tourism Bureau said on the 20th that the "four unlike" hummingbirds, eagles and moths were photographed by two local photographers while collecting wind in Dinghushan.

According to Xiao Ou, one of the photographers, when they passed through a jungle in Dinghu Mountain, they found many bees, moths and butterflies gathering honey among the flowers. Among them, four moths suspected to be hummingbirds and hawk moths caught their attention.

It is understood that the hummingbird hawk moth is known as the "four unlike" in the insect world. First of all, it is like a butterfly, with a long beak tube and enlarged tentacles at the top; Like a bee, it can make a clear and audible buzz; Like hummingbirds in South America, they don't sleep at night, come out during the day and have little rest. When feeding, it is like a hummingbird, sometimes running in the flowers and sometimes hovering in front of them.

It is reported that hummingbird moth is a rare insect in the United States, but relatively rare in China.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Hummingbird Eagle Moth