Hummingbird Moth

07-01-2008, 12:40 PM

I have a little visitor to my butterfly bush. Heres a Hummingbird Moth.

07-01-2008, 01:04 PM

Wow! Never saw one of those before. Interesting.

07-01-2008, 01:07 PM

They are the coolest little creatures! We have a Sphinx species also and another with a bright green hood. They zip around and get right in your face! I love them!

07-01-2008, 01:22 PM

Excellent shots! Someone is pretty good with the camera.

Bugs are so cool - except for flies & mosquitoes

& they are cool too unfortunately.

07-01-2008, 01:25 PM

Thanks Jac! Its wings were going so fast you cant see them when youre looking at it. So that fact that the camera caught the wing is amazing! My yard is full of dragonflies today and I have 1 Monarch butterfly so far. Spicebush arent far off. The praying mantis hatched by the thousands. a few weekends ago we were in the yard and the nymphs were all over our legs like ants! Ill be getting picks soon!

07-01-2008, 02:02 PM

That is an amazing creature, but it also kind gives me the heebie-jeebies!

07-01-2008, 02:14 PM

You must be Olan Mills! Those are great photos. I have never seen one. So beautiful!

07-01-2008, 02:42 PM

Great shot- a VERY difficult subject!!

07-01-2008, 02:59 PM

Great job, Leigh. Not an easy subject to capture, but aren't they just the neatest little creatures?

07-01-2008, 03:01 PM

Thanks Andrew & Nate! That little bugger made me really work for those shots! And its HOT out! lol

Just for ref, I just posted a link to my new bug album in this forum!