One of these buzzed me today, whilst I was outside having my lunch.
It landed on my trouser leg, and I let it rest there for a while, and took some pictures on my phone.
The photo is not mine, but it gives you an idea of the size of a Privet Hawk Moth. Blimming enormous, as you can see.
2 teenagers (boy & girl, about 19), noticed it from where they sat, and the girl screws up her face and goes "OMG, does it bite ?"
I said "No, it's a moth. I don't believe they eat humans. Well, not living ones, anyway".
She and her friend rapidly finished their lunch and vacated the benches.
Such a lovely creature, and I was in awe at the sheer size of it, for a moth in the UK at least.
It landed on my trouser leg, and I let it rest there for a while, and took some pictures on my phone.
The photo is not mine, but it gives you an idea of the size of a Privet Hawk Moth. Blimming enormous, as you can see.
2 teenagers (boy & girl, about 19), noticed it from where they sat, and the girl screws up her face and goes "OMG, does it bite ?"
I said "No, it's a moth. I don't believe they eat humans. Well, not living ones, anyway".
She and her friend rapidly finished their lunch and vacated the benches.
Such a lovely creature, and I was in awe at the sheer size of it, for a moth in the UK at least.
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