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Kuzeytac posted a photo:
Explore 09.27.08 #92
Arıkuşu Kelebeği ( Güvesi? )
Bunu çekerken Arı Kuşu sanmıştım, öyle hızlı uçuyor ki! Ancak fotoğrafta olamayacağını farkettim. Araştırdığımda Arı kuşunu taklit eden bir kelebek olduğunu öğrendim. Adını Ingilizce'den tercüme ettim.
I thought it was a humming bird, it flies so fast! When I took the photograph I noticed it wasn't, so I researched and found out it was some kind of moth that acts like a Humming bird...
Hummingbird Hawk-moth (Macroglossum stellatarum)
The Hummingbird Hawk is a species of hawk moth with a long proboscis, and regularly hovers, making an audible humming noise. These two features make it look remarkably like a hummingbird when it feeds on flowers, a result of convergent evolution. It flies during the day, especially in bright sunshine, but also at dusk , dawn, and even in the rain, which is unusual for even diurnal hawkmoths. In the southern parts of its range, the Hummingbird Hawk-moth is highly active even when temperatures are high, and thoracic temperatures above 45 °C have been measured. This is among the highest recorded for hawkmoths, and near the limit for insect muscle activity.
Its visual abilities have been much studied, and it has been shown to have a relatively good ability to learn colors.
The Hummingbird Hawk-moth is distributed throughout the northern Old World from Portugal to Japan, but is resident only in warmer climates (Portugal, Spain, Germany, Italy, Greece, Turkey, North Africa, and points east). It is strongly migratory and can be found virtually anywhere in the hemisphere in the summer. However it rarely survives the winter in northern latitudes.
Moths in the Hemaris genus of the family Sphingidae are known as "hummingbird moths" in the US, and "bee moths" in Europe, which sometimes causes confusion between this species and the North American genus.
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