Ever seen one?

Saw this hummingbird/moth thing last night. It flew like a hummingbird but looked like a moth. Anyone ever seen one before? It was pretty cool

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Had one of these a few years back.

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Seen them a handful of times in my lifetime. Have seen one in Texas recently. Once here in Cottage Grove a few years ago. Cool critters!

With all of Ma’s flowers these are pretty common late in the evening here. We’ve seen like 6 different other, smaller, species of sphinx moths this year too, one about the size of a quarter. Pretty cool creatures and most are super friendly letting a person get right up close to watch them.

Yea it was very friendly and let me get really close for the pictures. Very cool critter

Saw two at the cabin last weekend. Hadn’t seen one in years. The two were working together so obviously “The Bug has Brains”! Saw a couple of walking sticks this summer as well.
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Seen a couple the last few evenings at our place…. Was trying figure it out….. now I know.

Over the years, I have seen them but not very often.

The only one I’ve seen was in the flower bed near the fish house at Big Rock on Leech a couple years ago. Totally thought it was a hummer until I took a closer look. Very cool. It’s always cool to see and ID a new critter to me.

We had a lot of those in your yard when I was growing up. They can to eat on our honey suckle bushes each evening during Summer.

Most summers I have them regularly at our bee balm (Monarda) patch here in the west metro.

This flower attracts more bees of a wide variety to our gardens than any of our other flowers. A lot of the bees I see around them are ones I would never have seen otherwise.

Balsam is another flower that bees love as well as the moths. Along one side of our driveway we have balsam and the bees are busy all day and in the evening the mothsd appear to finish what the bees didn’t get.

I hadn’t heard of Balsam flower, will have to check that one out for next year.

Another good one for bees is Borage. I planted it about 10 years ago and its seeds come up here and there every year now.

That’s a sphinx moth.

Yup, Sphinx Moth! Awesome creatures. One let me get pretty close a couple of years ago and even caught a pair in-flight.

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Yes, just a couple weeks ago… we thought it was a tiny hummingbird… I googled it and that’s what it was… super fast !

Never knew they were anything weird. See them all the time.

I havent seen one in years, but they are neat.

Saw a ton of these in Colorado last month. Cool to watch

I had something like that fly at my face one night catfishing in the dark. It bounced off my head and I thought it was a hummingbird, come to find it was a huge moth, scared the bejeezus out of me. Sounded like a helicopter flying away.

I had one of those in my butterfly/moth collection when I was young. I would have “collected” it in the south metro.
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