Daphnis nerii, the oleander hawk-moth or army green moth sit on a wall of drawing room at remote village of West Bengal,India.

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Daphnis nerii, the oleander hawk-moth or army green moth, is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It was described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae. Daphnis nerii is a large hawk-moth found in wide areas of Africa, Asia and certain Hawaiian Islands where it was introduced to control invasive introduced oleanders as well as to pollinate the endangered Brighamia insignis and Brighamia rockii which had previously had to be hand pollinated. It is a migratory species, flying to parts of eastern and southern Europe during the summer, particularly Turkey.

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Size: 3552px × 2520px
Location: Found a remote village of West Bengal,India
Photo credit: © Debashis Ghosh / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No

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