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In reply to the discussion: UPDATE!!----Flies like a humming bird, looks like a bee! [View all]Lugnut
(9,791 posts)38. We've had them here.
I always hang a plant of Supertunias on the front porch and the hummingbirds love them. The front landscaping was redone a few weeks ago and the designer chose two dwarf butterfly bushes in the layout. Since then we've had a bunch of bees and butterflies enjoying the plants but this cool little bug started joining them. I'd never seen them before but they look like miniature hummingbirds.
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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