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With large showy flowers that attract the hawk moth, it is considered by some a useful landscape plant in areas that do not freeze.
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Among the 35 different species revealed to the excited gathering included the stunning elephant hawk moth; scallop shell moth; buff arches; peppered moth; clouded border and poplar hawk moth.
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What about other flying organisms that do - that hover, like a hummingbird or, you know, we've done videos on hawk moths...
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The hawk moth caterpillar scares away predators by resembling a snake.
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One olfactory channel governs innate preferences of the palm-sized hawk moths that were studied -- insects capable of traveling miles in a single night in search of favored blossoms.
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They feed on insects, showing a preference for hawk moths and cicadas, but also eating beetles, flies, and ants, among others.
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To investigate innate preferences, scent samples were collected from flowers that scientists observed were regularly visited by hawk moths in the wild.
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It has also been suggested that flying predators such as bats and birds are the more likely predators to hawk moths.
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As a result, nature would select for hawk moths with longer and longer proboscis.
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Infection was only consistently high among three species of tussock moths and one colony of a hawk moth.
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