You know how nature likes to fool you, like you have a meeting with your boss and you can't keep your hair from looking like a mop and you lose your job? You all know what I mean. Anyway, this is the humming bird moth--nature fools you in many ways. It LOOKS like a little hummingbird AND it is a moth that flies around in the day. So you go, "Neptune's Barcalounger! What a tiny bird." Then when you realize it's moth you look around to see if anyone heard you? You all know what I mean. Invertebrate of the Year Nomineee: the White-lined Sphinx Hummingbird Moth, Hyles lineata.
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I love moths! I did a series of posts on moths called Lepidoptera week a few months ago and I was totally intrigued and fascinated by the quote from Mark Epstein
"Ultimately it is best to think of butterflies as being one of several experiments in the evolution of day-flying Lepidoptera, the species overwhelmingly dominated by beautiful but little understood moths."(pp.13)
Love your blog- now you have 4 readers!
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