Vine hawkmoth
The vine hawkmoth is a fast hawk moth with green and ochre front wings and a shiny silver stripe across them. Its back wings are pink with a black bar. It travels far and sometimes flies all the way to Europe and Australia.
How fast is it?
Fun facts
Its front wing alone is about 3 to 4.5 centimetres long.
The caterpillar has a big yellow and green spot that looks like an eye near its front end.
Its caterpillar can be green, yellowish green or brown, with a long straight horn at the back end.
Some moths have no silver at all, and some are almost completely black.
Most asked questions about Vine hawkmoth
?What does the vine hawkmoth eat?
Its caterpillars eat grape vine leaves and some garden plants.
?Where does the vine hawkmoth live?
In Africa and southern Asia. It also flies to southern Europe and Australia.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Hippotion celerio
- Named by
- Linnaeus, 1758
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Sphingidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Sphingidae
- Lives on
- Africa, Asia, Europe, Australia and Oceania
- Also known as
- Silver-striped hawk-moth
Where the facts come from
- Hippotion celerio (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Denis Barthel ( talk ). CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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