I saw one of these the other day here in The Villages.
 

I thought I was in an episode of The Twilight Zone because it looked like a cross between a hummingbird and a big bug.


It was near Fox Run Golf Course.


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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?

Wow, how neat! I'll have to be on the lookout for one of these creatures!

It seems to be a clearwing hummingbird moth.
 

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

We used to see those Hummingbird Moths quite frequently in our back yard in New Mexico.

We have them here in PA, they like my Zinnias.

Wow! I'd love to see one of these moths. Amazing!

They are real comon in Georgia also.

Hummingbird Moth
 

A few years ago we had one in my backyard in CT. Here is a pic of it from my Flickr. It is indeed a strange and wondrous creature.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tudacee/86964851/

Actually I saw this hummingbird moth at the...
 

...Doggie Doo Run Run, where it was getting nectar from the flowers in a tree that also housed some of the web of a banana spider. The female banana spider occupying this web was bigger than the clearwing hummingbird moth.

I sure was relieved when the hummingbird moth went on its way and escaped the spider's web.

We had them in Denver a few years back. They come infrequently. I was drinking a beer by the sage bush and about 6 of them came along sipping from the sage flowers and trying to get my beer. Yes, they are moth and a basic brown/beige color but they are shaped and act like a hummingbird.

Bug
 

This is a hawk moth-has other names but this was easiest to remember!