John Abbott / Five-spotted hawk moth (Manduca quinquemaculata) Boone Woods Park, Kentucky, USA, May.

MYN / Jerry Monkman / Tomato hornworm (Manduca quinquemaculata) Rye, New Hampshire, USA, September. meetyourneighbours.net project

Mark Moffett / Five-spotted Hawkmoth (Manduca quinquemaculata) feeding on flower nectar, Sonoita, Arizona

Mark Moffett / Five-spotted Hawkmoth (Manduca quinquemaculata) feeding on Longtube Four O'clock (Mirabilis longiflora) nectar, Arizona

GEORGETTE DOUWMA / Caterpillar larva of Five spotted hawkmoth (Tomato hornworm) {Manduca quinquemaculata}, pest of tomato plants, Tennessee, USA

GEORGETTE DOUWMA / Caterpillar larva of Five spotted hawkmoth (Tomato hornworm) {Manduca quinquemaculata} covered in pupal cocoons of parasitic braconid wasp, Tennessee, USA

GEORGETTE DOUWMA / Caterpillar larva of Five spotted hawkmoth (Tomato hornworm) {Manduca quinquemaculata}, pest of tomato plants, Tennessee, USA

Doug Wechsler / Caterpillar larva of Tomato hornworm moth {Manduca quinquemaculata} with parasitic wasp cocoons. Pennsylvania, USA

Mark Moffett / Five-spotted Hawkmoth (Manduca quinquemaculata) feeding on flower nectar, Sonoita, Arizona

Mark Moffett / Five-spotted Hawkmoth (Manduca quinquemaculata) feeding on flower nectar, Sonoita, Arizona

Brent Stephenson / Recently fledged juvenile South Island saddleback (Philesturnus carunculatus) peering out from the undergrowth. Ulva Island, Stewart Island, New Zealand, November.

Brent Stephenson / Adult South Island saddleback (Philesturnus carunculatus) foraging on nectar of the Southern rata (Metrosideros umbellata) Ulva Island, Stewart Island, New Zealand, November.