Check out this slo-mo of an Elephant Hawk-moth taking off - SUCH beautiful creatures! | The Wildlife Trusts

The Elephant Hawk-moth can be seen across the UK right now in a variety of different habitats, including gardens.BBC Springwatch Adults feed from honeysuckle and other tubular flowers, whilst on the wing. https://butrfli.es/Elephant_Hawk Video by Tarmo Vakkala #Springwatch | Butterfly Conservation

The Elephant hawk moth released last night you can see from the super slow motion video Moths heat up their flight muscles by vibrating their wings. Safe journey little buddy | The Mouse family that live by the brambles

We have been getting a lot of sightings of Hummingbird Hawk-moths this week, such as this video shared with us by Andy Dean. These day-flying moths are more usually seen at the height of summer. Hummingbird hawk-moths are typically migrant visitors which can overwinter here during mild winters - but the cold frosts this year would have killed many of them. So likely many of these recent sightings are migrants which have travelled here from Europe with the recent warm weather. Have you spotted an