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beac

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13. Yours sounds tinier than the one I saw.
Sat Jul 7, 2012, 07:05 PM
Jul 2012

Mine was easily 1.5" long.

I also found out they are cousins to the dreaded tomato hornworm.

Unusual creatures flitting about my place this year? Denninmi Jul 2012 #1
LOL. beac Jul 2012 #14
You spied "him" on a phlox? Beartracks Jul 2012 #2
Actually, I guessed, but it turns out I was right! beac Jul 2012 #3
Been doing some more reading on these creatures... beac Jul 2012 #4
Great picture, and I wasn't aware of such a moth. dmosh42 Jul 2012 #5
I saw one a few evenings ago. Ednahilda Jul 2012 #6
I always associate moths with evening and night spottings too. beac Jul 2012 #15
I was in the house watching something on PBS Ednahilda Jul 2012 #17
I don't blame those bees for being furious. beac Jul 2012 #18
Well, now I'm stumped. Several years ago I was in Montreaux, Switzerland hedgehog Jul 2012 #7
Some other species of Sphinx moth. Denninmi Jul 2012 #8
It must have been a sphinx moth. It was about the size of a bumble bee, hedgehog Jul 2012 #9
Yours sounds tinier than the one I saw. beac Jul 2012 #13
+1 some Peeps think they are humming birds, but they are sphinx moths! n/t hue Jul 2012 #11
That's cool and definitely looks like a hummingbird-lobster GMO experiment gone bad. Gormy Cuss Jul 2012 #10
Yikes! I just about shrieked seeing it behind the safety of my computer screen. beac Jul 2012 #12
They taste like chicken. alfredo Jul 2012 #19
Beautiful! I knew about them. Would love to see one in person. Solly Mack Jul 2012 #16
Seen them in Arizona and I know they're here in Texas and they also spin tussah silk. marble falls Jul 2012 #20
Looks more like a flying shrimp to me. obxhead Jul 2012 #21
Shrimp is certainly a better match to its size. beac Jul 2012 #25
unusual creatures flitting about ? Plucketeer Jul 2012 #22
We only have ruby-throated hummingbirds here, but they beac Jul 2012 #23
UPDATE: beac Jul 2012 #24
wow! Skittles Jul 2012 #26
Another shot of her: beac Jul 2012 #27
she's a beaut! Skittles Jul 2012 #31
The "female of the species" may or may not be "more deadly than the male" beac Jul 2012 #32
LOL Skittles Jul 2012 #33
It's a hummingbird moth. They aren't that uncommon. It's just uncommon to see one. HopeHoops Jul 2012 #28
And I never have before, but now I am seeing one every day. beac Jul 2012 #29
Consider yourself lucky. They pollinate quite well. HopeHoops Jul 2012 #30
Flies like a humming bird, looks like a bee? Possibly Muhammad Ali? NeedleCast Jul 2012 #34
Yay, somebody got my veiled reference! beac Jul 2012 #35
The offspring are the great tomato hornworms. BlueToTheBone Jul 2012 #36
Interesting... TuxedoKat Aug 2012 #37
We've had them here. Lugnut Aug 2012 #38
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