单词 | pine hawkmoth |
释义 | > as lemmaspine hawkmoth pine hawk n. (in full pine hawkmoth) a large grey hawkmoth, Hyloicus pinastri, whose larvae feed on pine needles. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Sphingidae > sphinx pinastri pine hawkmoth1803 1803 A. H. Haworth Lepidoptera Britannica i. 59 Pine Hawk [moth]. 1859 W. S. Coleman Our Woodlands 36 It will change first into a brown chrysalis, then into a large and pretty moth—the Pine-hawk Moth. 1974 W. Condry Woodlands xii. 130 Rare but slowly increasing in pinewoods of the south of England is a big, grey moth, the pine hawk. 1983 Birds Summer 27 (caption) Pinewoods are rich..in insects, such as the pine hawkmoth, a large moth confined to south-east England. < as lemmas |
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