Hummingbird Hawkmoth

(Marcroglossum Stellatarum)

Hummingbird Hawkmoth is often mistaken for a hummingbird, while it is a butterfly actually! With 80 wing beats per second it hovers in front of the flower like a small helicopter . With its 3 cm long proboscis, it sucks on flowers with long and narrow calyxes, such as red clover, lucerne, fuchsias or petunias. Over 100 flowers are visited within minutes from hummingbird hawkmoth and get pollinated at the same time!

As part of the educational initiative "Biodiversity and Environmental Education", a green lawn was transformed into a colourful, species-rich garden on this site by the pupils of the Längenfeld Primary School and Middle School Nature Park Schools.