Re: Strange beast sighting

On Tue, 29 May 2007 12:50:11 GMT, Tim Lysyk <timlysyk@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Tim Lysyk wrote:
Scott Seidman wrote:

I didn't get a close enough look to categorically say there was no
beak, so I can't be sure, but I thought I saw a rather prominent
probiscus for nectar collection-- maybe some sort of odd moth??


Probablt a clearwing moth. See
http://www.birds-n-garden.com/snowberry_clearwing_hummingbird_moths.html

Not sure yours would be same species, but the family would be the same.

Also, see photos at


http://www.naturalsciences.org/funstuff/notebook/inverts/hummingbird_moth.html


also scroll down to at least the third photo on
http://www.whatsthatbug.com/clearwing_moth.html

Tim Lysyk


Sorry, that should have been clear-winged *sphinx* moth. There is a
different family called clearwinged moths that resemble wasps.

Tim Lysyk

And a couple of happy hours later I emerged from the whatsthatbug
page. And I'd only seen the hummingbird / hawk moths. Thanks for the
link.
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