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Humming Bird Hawk Moth
Aug 15, 2007 | 1:20 PM PST
Tag: hummingbird moths

It is so nice to be visited every day in the evening when I am out watering the garden and admiring the corn and pumpkins.  Growing in the corner of the garden is a patch of bouncing bet or soapwort and the blossoms are lovely.  The little humming bird hawk moth's come zipping about, poking their long proboscis  into every flower.  I have seen three of them there together and it is great how they manage to slip in through the holes in the fence.

 Ours have lovely bright orange on their wings.  It is said they can fly up to 50 miles an hour.