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Macroglossum stellatarum

Description:

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?

1 Species ID Suggestions

bayucca
bayucca 12 years ago
Large Beefly
Bombylius major Bombylius major


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1 Comment

bayucca
bayucca 12 years ago

This is not a little hawk moth, but a Beefly. Diptera, Bombyliidae. We call them Grosser Wollschweber.
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Großer_Woll...

Nadi88
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Nadi88

Trier, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany

Spotted on Apr 26, 2011
Submitted on Apr 26, 2011

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