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.


[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNeFvgzeyRI[/ame]

[Pturner]

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?

[pooh]

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

Originally Posted by Pturner

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

[logdog]

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

[TednRobin]

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

[K9-Lovers]

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

[Lou Card]

They are real comon in Georgia also.

[tudacee]

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/

...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.

[scrapple]

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.

[judynlee]

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