‘Grey lump with orange wings’: migrating moth descends on UK gardens
Luke Burstow spied the hummingbird hawk-moth enjoying buddleia flowers in his garden in Sussex. Photograph: Luke BurstowView image in fullscreenLuke Burstow spied the hummingbird hawk-moth enjoying buddleia flowers in his garden in Sussex. It was a hummingbird hawk-moth, a flying insect that migrates to the UK from continental Europe and north Africa.“I was like: ‘Wow!’,” said the software project manager.
- ▪Luke Burstow spied the hummingbird hawk-moth enjoying buddleia flowers in his garden in Sussex.
- ▪Photograph: Luke BurstowView image in fullscreenLuke Burstow spied the hummingbird hawk-moth enjoying buddleia flowers in his garden in Sussex.
- ▪It was a hummingbird hawk-moth, a flying insect that migrates to the UK from continental Europe and north Africa.“I was like: ‘Wow!’,” said the software project manager.
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Luke Burstow spied the hummingbird hawk-moth enjoying buddleia flowers in his garden in Sussex. Photograph: Luke BurstowView image in fullscreenLuke Burstow spied the hummingbird hawk-moth enjoying buddleia flowers in his garden in Sussex. Photograph: Luke BurstowInsects‘Grey lump with orange wings’: migrating moth descends on UK gardensBoom in hummingbird hawk-moth sightings put down to hot weather, strong winds and food scarcity in EuropeChris BaraniukThu 30 Jul 2026 04.00 EDTSharePrefer the Guardian on GoogleHe had just sat down to dinner in the garden when a speedy visitor whizzed by – a “grey lump with orange wings”, recalled Luke Burstow, from Sussex.
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