I don’t know if these are rare everywhere, but, I don’t see a humminbird moth every year.

[21limited]

Pentax K-3
DA 55-300 PLM
1/1025 second froze that wing.

AV exposure. 8 fps burst mode.
2025-06-06 Porch-Hummingbird Moth-1 by Norm Head, on Flickr

The fuzziest of them all, rescued by Topaz Super Focus.
2025-06-06 Porch-Hummingbird Moth-3 by Norm Head, on Flickr

2025-06-06 Porch-Hummingbird Moth-2 by Norm Head, on Flickr


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[Digger...]

What a tongue on him.

 

[Jeff15]

Nice shots of a creature I don't see very often ...

 

[jeffashman]

Yep, we've got them here. They are the ones that produce horned worm caterpillars, which feast on tomatoes and tobacco plants and such.

 

[24megapixseal]

We have them here in Kansas as well....I photographed my first one last spring, on a huge thistle bloom...

"Hummingbird Clearwing Moth"

After I took my photos I called the wife, describing this new thing I just saw....I said its a moth that looks like a hummingbird, but has clear wings...a later Google Lens search provided that exact answer....the scientist named that one CORRECTLY!.....UNLIKE the Red bellied Woodpeckers, that have red heads instead of red bellies...

 

[24megapixseal]

Oh, and BTW.....21limited, OUTSTANDING PHOTOGRAPHY WORK!!!!!

 

[Hardus Nameous]

Nice shots; I never knew that's what hornworms turned into.

 

[4rum]

Very good photos! Common here, also called 'Hawk Moth'. Another peculiarity is that they are DIURNAL (active in the daytime).
My Redbellies have red bellies.

 

[21limited]

Yep, we've got them here. They are the ones that produce horned worm caterpillars, which feast on tomatoes and tobacco plants and such.

I learn something new every day. Maybe that’s why we can’t grow tomatoes here. Although, I’ve never seen the caterpillar. Just big chunks out of my tomoatoes.

We have them here in Kansas as well....I photographed my first one last spring, on a huge thistle bloom...

In previous years, I’ve photgraphed them on the wild chives that grow next to my parlkng lot drainage, this year on the porch flowers. The chives haven’t actually bloomed yet this year.

 

[cgw]

Yep, we've got them here. They are the ones that produce horned worm caterpillars, which feast on tomatoes and tobacco plants and such.

Horn worms don't have much of a chance around my tomatoes! Think they become sphinx or hawk moths--apparently not the hummingbird variety.

 

[21limited]

Horn worms don't have much of a chance around my tomatoes! Think they become sphinx or hawk moths--apparently not the hummingbird variety.

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