The striped hawk moth is one of seven species of hawk moths indigenous to the Maltese islands. It is found in most of Africa and large parts of Asia. It is also found throughout most of Europe but ...

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An immigration of rare moths are on their way to the UK from Europe - and some of them are as big as a human hand. Wildlife lovers are being encouraged to look out for the various breeds that are ...

A moth that is usually found in Spain or north Africa has been found on a Herefordshire common. The striped hawk moth, which has only been spotted in Herefordshire three times before, was recorded by ...

Wildlife lovers are being encouraged to take a “torchlight safari” to patches of late-flowering ivy to spot rare migrant moths which are flocking to the UK. Unusual moths from Europe including the ...

THERE has been a letter or two in recent numbers of NATURE on the finding of rare moths in England. It may be of interest to the writers to know that in the middle of last September there was caught ...

WITH reference to the paragraph in NATURE of August 18 (p. 389) on the striped hawk moth, on May 23 this year I found a specimen alive in a thick bed of lily-of-the-valley; it had just emerged, and ...

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