In the Lepidoptera order of the animal kingdom, it’s butterflies who get all the glory. But we’d argue it’s their relatives, moths, that have the better story. With more than 160,000 species of moths around the world, moths outnumber butterfly species roughly 10 to 1. While most are nocturnal, the hummingbird hawk-moth on our homepage today breaks the mold. Found throughout Africa, Asia, and Europe, it’s shown here in the daylight of southern Sardinia, sipping nectar with its straw-like appendage known as a proboscis. Like a hummingbird, the moth makes a soft buzzing sound as it hovers over the flowers whose nectar it feeds on exclusively.
Let’s go mothing
Today in History
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					A grotesque scene
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					Working for that cliffside view
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					Happy Thanksgiving from an expert face-stuffer
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					World Giraffe Day
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					National Mushroom Month
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					Lake Peipus, Estonia
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					It s Coffee Day
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					National Find a Rainbow Day
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					Happy 800th, Salisbury Cathedral
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					Nothing plain about it
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					Fox kits
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					Bridge to infinity
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					Is that a smile?
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					The puffin-rabbit connection
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					Atrani, Amalfi Coast, Italy
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					El Valle de la Luna, Chile
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					Reflections of the night sky
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					Ambassadors of the airwaves
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					A dying breed of tree thrives in an American park
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					Manatee Appreciation Day
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					It’s Penguin Awareness Day
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					A place fit for the gods
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					Ring of fire
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					Australian baobab tree, Kimberley region, Western Australia
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					Aloe in bloom
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					Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival, China
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					Tree of many colors
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					Twosday
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					Watson Lake in Granite Dells, Arizona
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					European Day of Parks
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