hornet moth
hornet clearwing
sesia apiformis latin

The last flight from the airfield was a de Havilland Hornet Moth in July 1934.

The Lunar Hornet Moth flies from July to early August, though this is not a reliable identification guide.

The Hornet Moth can be found in Germany, Holland, Austria, and Bohemia.

Rabagliati persuaded Sneum to work as a spy having survived a heroic crossing of the North Sea in a Hornet Moth.

The Lunar Hornet Moth (Sesia bembeciformis) is a moth of the family Sesiidae.

A Hornet Moth appears in Ken Follett's 2002 suspense novel Hornet Flight.

On 30 July, the Folkestone Trophy race was held and was won by H Buckingham flying a de Havilland Hornet Moth.

By March 1936, the Thanet Aero Club had been formed at Ramsgate, operating a de Havilland Hornet Moth.

By 1935, the Macarthur-Onslow family owned several aircraft including a de Havilland Hornet Moth and a Comper Swift which they stored in a shed on the property.

The supporters society has also been responsible for work on Tiger Moth, Hornet Moth, Vampires, Mosquito 6, Heron, Dove and many other aircraft in the collection.

In the novel a de Havilland Hornet Moth is used by the protagonists to fly from Denmark to the United Kingdom with information about a German radar system.

The squadron also operated the de Havilland Dominie and de Havilland Hornet Moth, which apart from calibration were also used for communications duties.

The Hornet Moth or Hornet Clearwing, (Sesia apiformis), is a large bulky moth which is a brilliant natural imitation of a hornet.

The Hornet Moth is easily confused with the real Hornet and the Lunar Hornet Moth.

The Moth line of aircraft continued with the more refined (and enclosed) Hornet Moth and Moth Minor, the latter being a low-wing monoplane constructed of wood.

On 7 July 1939, de Havilland Hornet Moth G-AFAT crashed a Lympne, killing racing driver Clifton Penn-Hughes and his passengers.

Lunar Hornet Moths lack the yellow head and shoulders and has a black collar, unlike the Hornet Moth which has a yellow collar.

No. 528 Squadron RAF was formed at Filton in June 1943, flying the Bristol Blenheim and de Havilland Hornet Moth in the radar calibration role.

The RAF operated a flight of Coastal Command Avro Ansons, Tiger Moths and Hornet Moths on anti-submarine patrols during 1939 and 1940.

These animals include the Lunar Hornet Moth, the Hornet Moth, the Hornet Mimic Hoverfly.

Other Moths include the Leopard Moth and Hornet Moth cabin biplanes, the Puss Moth cabin monoplane and the Moth Minor low-wing two-seater.

The de Havilland DH.87 Hornet Moth was a single-engined cabin biplane designed by the de Havilland Aircraft Company in 1934 as a potential replacement for its highly successful de Havilland Tiger Moth trainer.

The Hornet Moth or Hornet Clearwing, (Sesia apiformis), is a large bulky moth which is a brilliant natural imitation of a hornet.

The Red Oak Clearwing Borer, Hornet Clearwing or Oak Clearwing Borer (Paranthrene simulans) is a moth of the Sesiidae family.

Poulton gives examples of mimicry in other insect groups, remarking the "very imperfect" resemblance of Bee Hawk-Moths to bees, which totally failed to "impose on" a lizard, but noting that the much more convincing mimicry of the Hornet Clearwing moth was treated with extreme caution by an inexperienced lizard.