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HUMMINGBIRD CLEARWING MOTH (Hemaris thysbe) ©PAphotographer.blogspot.com The Hummingbird Clearwing Moth or Common Clearwing (wingspan 38-50 mm), readily visits flowers by day throughout the eastern half of the U.S. and Canada, where it ranges far to the north, even into the Yukon and Ken Philip reports them in Alaska. It is not difficult to see why many gardeners would mistake an Hemaris thysbe moth for a small hummingbird as it hovers, sipping nectar from flowers through a long feeding tube. The moth hovers briefly, sipping for only a few seconds before darting off to a new flower. Green body “fur” and burgundy wing scales suggest a small ruby-throated hummingbird. Adults can be quite variable. Fact Source: http://www.silkmoths.bizland.com/hthysbe.htm rhamphotheca: Hummingbird Clearwing Moth (via: Penn Wildlife Photographer)

HUMMINGBIRD CLEARWING MOTH (Hemaris thysbe)

©PAphotographer.blogspot.com

The Hummingbird Clearwing Moth or Common Clearwing (wingspan 38-50 mm), readily visits flowers by day throughout the eastern half of the U.S. and Canada, where it ranges far to the north, even into the Yukon and Ken Philip reports them in Alaska.

It is not difficult to see why many gardeners would mistake an Hemaris thysbe moth for a small hummingbird as it hovers, sipping nectar from flowers through a long feeding tube.

The moth hovers briefly, sipping for only a few seconds before darting off to a new flower. Green body “fur” and burgundy wing scales suggest a small ruby-throated hummingbird.

Adults can be quite variable.

Fact Source: http://www.silkmoths.bizland.com/hthysbe.htm

rhamphotheca:

Hummingbird Clearwing Moth (via: Penn Wildlife Photographer)

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