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Acherontia lachesis lachesis
Wingspan 130 mm
Garden
A large nocturnal moth with a love of honey; they mimic the scent of honey bees enableing them to enter a hive unharmed to get honey. They pierce the wax cells with thier strong tongue and suck out the honey.
Spotted on Feb 6, 2014
Submitted on Feb 6, 2014
29 Comments (1–25)
Belated Congrats Lenny!
wonderful!
Congrats Lenny! Amazing & beautiful moth & great photos :)
Great SOTD Lenny!
Fantastic ! Congratulations - well deserved, Mr Worthington .
Congratulations Lenny on this SOTD!
Beautiful capture LennyWorthington,congrats on the SOTD and thanks for sharing
Thanks everyone for your kind comments
What a fun moth :) Congrats Lenny.
Congratulations. Amazing moth.
Congratulations Lenny!
Fantastic spot!
Graet SOTD!
Very interesting behavior. Yet, to me the behavior have to be more complex, since each hive has its own scent, and hive bees attack bees of other nest trying to enter.
Congratulations Lenny, wonderful picture.
Congratulations, Lenny
Sooo nice
Congratulations Lenny!
Great spotting Lenny... Congrats!!!
Congratulations on the SOTD, LennyWorthington, fantastic Moth!!
Great spotting, great shot!
Congratulations.
Congratulations Lenny! Good spotting!
Hey congrats Lenny. A spooky SOTD. :-)
Congratulations Lenny!