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Birds attacking Butterflies and Moths

Nature volume 65, page 392 (1902)Cite this article

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ONE morning in 1901 (actual date not recorded) I found a Humming-bird Hawk (Macroglossa stellatarum) on a window in my house. I opened the window and tossed it out, thinking it would fly away, but it fell to the ground, where it remained quivering its wings within six feet of me.

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DURRANT, J. Birds attacking Butterflies and Moths. Nature 65, 392 (1902). https://doi.org/10.1038/065392b0

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