{"id":743051,"date":"2026-08-19T14:56:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T14:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/743051\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T14:56:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T14:56:11","slug":"hummingbird-hawk-moth-captured-in-herefordshire-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/743051\/","title":{"rendered":"Hummingbird hawk-moth captured in Herefordshire garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Amanda Preece photographed the creature in her garden, showcasing its unique features.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  With greyish-brown forewings, bright orange hindwings, and a greyish body with a broad, black-and-white tail, the hummingbird hawk-moth is known for its distinctive hovering flight, which resembles that of a hummingbird.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The moth, a summer visitor to the UK, migrates from Southern Europe and varies in numbers each year.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  In some years, it becomes a common sight in gardens, drawn to the nectar of honeysuckle, red valerian, and other flowers.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  It is also found along woodland edges, heathland, and scrub.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The moth&#8217;s caterpillars feed on various species of bedstraw, with female adult moths laying their eggs on the buds or flowers of these plants.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The hummingbird hawk-moth is frequently spotted in the south and near the coast.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Interestingly, it is the only &#8216;hummingbird&#8217; in Europe, as real hummingbirds are native to the Americas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amanda Preece photographed the creature in her garden, showcasing its unique features. With greyish-brown forewings, bright orange hindwings,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":743052,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-743051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=743051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/743052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}