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1.4K views, 49 likes, 4 loves, 11 comments, 25 shares, Facebook Watch Videos from Alok Tewari:

An amazing
moth ... that flies ...
nectars ...
... and behaves much like
a Hummingbird ...

Even the name is ...
Hummingbird Hawk-moth

This video was recorded
in Himalayas ...
... in noon-time
... though I have recorded
it coming to my
house-garden
in NCR-region ...
... in the 1st week of
April at twilght time
when capturing images
was not easy ...
________
Dist. Almora
Uttarakhand
India
April-2011
Habitat
Himalayan Slopes, altitude 5000 feet
Location
Dwarahat, Almora, Uttarakhand, India
Date taken
11.04.2023
Scientific name
Macroglossum stellatarum
excellent video of peculiar moth, Renu and Alok, a real pleasure to watch, many tfs!!
 

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