Kansai Gaijin

A Photo Blog of the Kansai Area

Tag: japanese bugs

Japanese Hummingbird Hawk Moth

When I was growing up, I used to see what I thought were hummingbirds flying around our honeysuckle bushes in front of our house. They would hover in front of the flowers and stick their long elephant-like-trunk noses into the flowers to suck the sweet nectar. Their wings flapped so fast and their body shape [...]