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Macroglossum stellatarum
This little butterfly looks like a hummingbird. Two of them just landed next to me on the ground and put their abdomen into the soil. What have they done?
This is not a little hawk moth, but a Beefly. Diptera, Bombyliidae. We call them Grosser Wollschweber.
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Großer_Woll...