This amazing, sped up clip shows the wings expanding on a freshly emerged Death's-head Hawk-moth (Acherontia atropos)! 😮 Thanks to James O'Neill for the footage. | Butterfly Conservation

How's this for a hungry caterpillar? 🐛 The caterpillars of the Death's-head Hawk-moth have a taste for Potato, Deadly Nightshade and other members of the Nightshade family. 🥔 In a good immigration year they can be seen in potato fields, pupating underground from August to October. The adult moths are equally as impressive! Learn more about them here 👉 https://butrfli.es/2RBWNGK #MothsMatter | Butterfly Conservation

Have you ever seen a Death's-Head Hawk-moth caterpillar? #MothsMatter The Death’s-head Hawk-moth is the bad boy of the moth world. Strikingly large and rather rare in the UK; only a handful make it over from the Continent each autumn. https://butterfly-conservation.org/news-and-blog/meet-the-deaths-head-hawk-moth | Butterfly Conservation

Deaths head hawk moths are a good time both to raise and to pin. It was a very bittersweet feeling to see them going to new homes after I had preserved them. But a much more wholesome feeling than buying them in. There's something very lovely and humbling about folks buying the tatty little ones I've raised. • #nature #moth #deathsheadhawkmoth #acherontiaatropos #invertkeeping | Selina Grazia Art

Feeding the deaths head hawk moths 🍯🐝 I get a lot of comments saying I’m going to 💀 the moths but I assure you it doesn’t hurt them or stop them from flying! I am feeding the moths fresh honey mixed with water at a ratio of 50/50 and I’ll feed them every other day. They can live for up to 6 weeks #moths | Jumping spider & Moth life