NOUN
- any of various moths with long narrow forewings capable of powerful flight and hovering over flowers to feed
How To Use hawk moth In A Sentence
- All hawk moths are chunky things with serious wings on them: they seem more like honorary birds than insects. Times, Sunday Times
- These are visited by a diverse array of animals, including bees, hawk moths, beetles, butterflies, long-tongued flies, hummingbirds and bats.
- In contrast, pollinator observations demonstrated that hawk moths visited flowers with larger corollas, and that the probability of producing a fruit for natural pollination plants increased with corolla diameter.
- Lime hawk moth moth is named after the hawk because it capable of powerful, long- distance flight. Times, Sunday Times
- Lime hawk moth moth is named after the hawk because it capable of powerful, long- distance flight. Times, Sunday Times
- When the hawk moth proboscises were long compared to the length of the flower tube, the hawk moths did not efficiently pick up pollen, and the flowers did not reproduce well.
- Jacamars prefer to eat large, showy, flying insects such as blue morpho butterflies, hawk moths, and venomous insects such as wasps, ants, and sawflies.
- The death's-head hawk moth is the largest moth to fly in Britain and has the ability to fly into beehives in search of honey without being stung. Indian summer sees exotic moths fly in
- As the favoured signature of the serial killer in The Silence of the Lambs, the death's-head hawk moth is a harbinger of pestilence and death. Indian summer sees exotic moths fly in
- All hawk moths are chunky things with serious wings on them: they seem more like honorary birds than insects. Times, Sunday Times