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Old 08-15-2010, 12:48 PM
Taltarzac
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Default It seems to be a clearwing hummingbird moth.
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Originally Posted by Pturner View Post
Weird, I'd never seen anything like it before either and saw one a couple of weeks ago when visiting sister-in-law in AL. Does anyone know what it is?

This gives some information on what I think I saw:

http://www.cirrusimage.com/moths_hum..._clearwing.htm


There seems to be quite a lot more of these kind of critters in Europe, Northern Africa and Asia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macroglossum_stellatarum
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