The Weird Animal Express

Death's Head Sphinx Moth

Deathly Face

    The Death's Head Sphinx Moth got its name because the pattern on its thorax (one of the body segments) looks like a human skull. Their posture is also a threat that will scare away predators. Other sphinx moths fly from flower to flower to get nectar. But not the Death' Head, it uses its short tongue to take honey right from the bee's hive. It is a powerful flyer. It hardly ever flies long distances, but when it is time to migrate it travels from Africa to North Europe.