- Object name(s):
- insect: moth; SPHINGIDAE: Deilephila elpenor: elephant hawk-moth; elephant hawk-moth
- Brief description:
- Adult elephant hawk-moths are quite a common sight May-July across the UK. Frank Lees found this specimen near his home at Maidencombe 5 July 1961. The caterpillar (larva) looks a little like an elephant’s trunk. It would make a tasty snack for a foraging bird but it has alarming eye spots and by rearing up and retracting its head it tricks the bird into thinking it is a snake. This object is not on display.
- Collection:
- Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery
- Associated concept:
- Insect
- Current location:
- Not on display
- Field collection place:
- Maidencombe
- Place coordinates:
- -3.517,50.505
- Field collection place:
- Torquay
- Place coordinates:
- -3.517,50.505
- Field collection place:
- Devon
- Place coordinates:
- -3.517,50.505
- Field collection place:
- United Kingdom: England
- Place coordinates:
- -3.517,50.505
- Field collection place:
- Northern Europe
- Place coordinates:
- -3.517,50.505
- Field collection place:
- Europe
- Place coordinates:
- -3.517,50.505
- Field collector:
- Devon & Exeter Institution (from the collection of)
- Field collector:
- Mr Frank H Lees (collector)
- Object name:
- insect: moth; SPHINGIDAE: Deilephila elpenor (Linnaeus, 1758): elephant hawk-moth; elephant hawk-moth
- Object number:
- 9/1997/29
- Reproduction number:
- 9-1997-29.jpg
- Reproduction number:
- 9-1997-29-shot1.jpg
- Responsible department/section:
- Natural Sciences
- Responsible department/section:
- Arthropods
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/5d4ab291-8e32-3700-b55b-ed15af7f84d2
Use licence for this record: CC 0
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/5d4ab291-8e32-3700-b55b-ed15af7f84d2, Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery, CC 0
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