Cool Moth ??
We saw the coolest thing buzzing around my Forget-Me-Nots the other day. My first thought was that it was a very small hummingbird, as we could see what looked like a long beak. The flight pattern was very hummingbird like too, but it had more of a moth-like appearance. My dad found some info on it, and we think it is a Hummingbird Moth (and what we thought was a beak was a proboscis). VERY cool - I've never seen anything like it. Here it is - if anyone knows for sure what this is, please let me know.
The picture almost doesn't do it justice, because it really was the way it was flying around the plant that had us really fooled. Once I saw the picture, it looked a lot more like a moth. I wish I would have taken a video.... oh wait, that's what youtube is for. I love the internet, and especially other geeks like me who would take a 2 and a half minute video of a Hummingbird Moth. Enjoy.
posted by The Sauce at
4:45 PM
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I would definitely back your Dad up on this one...looks hummingbird-ie to me! Cool!! I rarely see them around, so that is quite a find!
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