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Posted by duddy   Aug 10, 2013    3497 views

This pretty little moth from Madagascar, Hemiceratoides hieroglyphica, frequents birds at night and drinks their tears using a specialised harpoon-like proboscis. In the image, H. hieroglyphica prepares to drink tears from a sleeping common Newtonia (Newtonia brunneicauda).

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