Author Koh Lin â—¦
I love seeing large moths… and in particular the beautiful Convolvulus Hawk Moth (scientific classification Agrius convolvuli).
I stumbled across this specimen on one of my daily working rounds in Alice Springs… it was just lying there on the ground, placid and still. A large moth and maybe for some people, quite plain, but this little beauty won me over, when it calmly walked onto my hand. I certainly wasn’t going to leave it on the pavement, in case someone else stepped on it.
With the moth on one hand and my mobile phone in the other, it allowed me to capture some wonderful shared moments…
I then placed it in the garden bed, out of harms way… where it fluttered the wings and settled down. When I went back to see how it was going… it was gone.
You can see more about the Convolvulus Hawk Moth in our main section on Moths | Agrius convolvuli (Convolvulus Hawk Moth) and Alice Springs Convolvulus Hawk-moth (Agrius convolvuli).
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