Elephant hawk-moth larvae resemble elephant trunks. The caterpillars are typically dark brown with large eye spots, but they may also be found in green coloration.

The white-lined sphinx moth ( Hyles lineata) is a North American sphingid sometimes mistaken for a hummingbird as it hovers ...

When it's a huge caterpillar that will become an Elephant Hawk-moth, says Monty, and seeing it change is amazing. By MONTY HALLS . Published: 17:30 EDT, 11 October 2013 | Updated: 17:30 EDT, 11 ...

The emergent larvae eat the living caterpillar’s insides. The adults feed on the pollen and nectar of flowers. ... It is the caterpillar of the green and pink elephant hawkmoth.

It’s the brimstone. You’d normally see it in hedgerows as its caterpillars feed on hawthorn. It’s a sexton beetle, a scavenger. Sexton beetles, sometimes working in pairs, bury small ...

Roger, who has been moth trapping most evenings during 30 Days Wild, as he did last year during the Nottinghamshire Wildlife event, says, take the bright pink Elephant Hawk Moth, for instance, or ...