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In reply to the discussion: UPDATE!!----Flies like a humming bird, looks like a bee! [View all]beac
(9,992 posts)13. Yours sounds tinier than the one I saw.
Mine was easily 1.5" long.
I also found out they are cousins to the dreaded tomato hornworm.
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That's cool and definitely looks like a hummingbird-lobster GMO experiment gone bad.
Gormy Cuss
Jul 2012
#10
Seen them in Arizona and I know they're here in Texas and they also spin tussah silk.
marble falls
Jul 2012
#20
It's a hummingbird moth. They aren't that uncommon. It's just uncommon to see one.
HopeHoops
Jul 2012
#28