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Hummingbird hawk-moth: The bird-like insect with a giant sucking mouthpart
The hummingbird hawk-moth is partial to flowers with tube-shaped petals and uses its long, curled proboscis — an elongated sucking mouthpart — to extract nectar from the flower's center.
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Commentary: Riddle of the sphinx moth
It is the sphinx moth, also called the hawk moth or hummingbird moth ... they unfurl their long straw-like mouth part called a proboscis. They expertly insert the tip of the proboscis into ...
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The Flower Sense of Hawkmoths
A stationary Carolina sphinx moth (Manduca sexta) is the Cinderella of the animal ... hovering to drink nectar. M. sexta’s proboscis, longer than its 2-inch body, stays unfurled, a straw ready to ...
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Commentary: The ‘flights’ of the sphinx moth
It is the white-lined sphinx moth (Hyles lineata), also called the hawk moth or hummingbird moth ... they unfurl their long straw-like mouth part called a proboscis. They expertly insert the ...