What type of moth?

This afternoon saw this moth (I guess) flying around a tree in my yard
that is leaking sap. From a distance, it looked like a small
hummingbird or one of those big wasps/hornets with the two white bands
around the thorax. At any rate, this one was moving like a hummingbird
- no fluttering, and it was very fast. It also never came fully to
rest - the wings were almost always going, and it was constantly
moving. I assume it is some sort of moth, but it sure didn't move
like any moth I've ever seen. Anyone know what this is:

http://www.pbase.com/sirchandestroy/image/60997782
http://www.pbase.com/sirchandestroy/image/60997784
http://www.pbase.com/sirchandestroy/image/60997786
http://www.pbase.com/sirchandestroy/image/60997788

On 29 May 2006 18:25:06 -0700, wrote:

This afternoon saw this moth (I guess) flying around a tree in my yard

The best place to ask is in this newsgroup: sci.bio.entomology.lepidoptera

http://www.pbase.com/sirchandestroy/image/60997782

In pictures like these I'm more interested in the lens used, than the
camera used.

Don www.donwiss.com/pictures/ (e-mail link at page bottoms).

wrote:
This afternoon saw this moth (I guess) flying around a tree in my yard
that is leaking sap. From a distance, it looked like a small
hummingbird or one of those big wasps/hornets with the two white bands
around the thorax. At any rate, this one was moving like a hummingbird
- no fluttering, and it was very fast. It also never came fully to
rest - the wings were almost always going, and it was constantly
moving. I assume it is some sort of moth, but it sure didn't move
like any moth I've ever seen. Anyone know what this is:

http://www.pbase.com/sirchandestroy/image/60997782
http://www.pbase.com/sirchandestroy/image/60997784
http://www.pbase.com/sirchandestroy/image/60997786
http://www.pbase.com/sirchandestroy/image/60997788


It's a hummingbird moth. They're pretty cool, actually.

http://www.coopext.colostate.edu/4DM...s/hummingb.htm

On 29 May 2006 18:25:06 -0700, wrote:

This afternoon saw this moth (I guess) flying around a tree in my yard

And when you ask in the sci.bio.entomology.lepidoptera newsgroup you should
state where you are located.

Don www.donwiss.com (e-mail link at home page bottom).

Don Wiss wrote:
On 29 May 2006 18:25:06 -0700, wrote:

This afternoon saw this moth (I guess) flying around a tree in my yard

The best place to ask is in this newsgroup: sci.bio.entomology.lepidoptera

http://www.pbase.com/sirchandestroy/image/60997782

In pictures like these I'm more interested in the lens used, than the
camera used.

80-200 AF-D at 200mm w/ PK-13 27.5mm tube.

Cynicor wrote:
wrote:
This afternoon saw this moth (I guess) flying around a tree in my yard
that is leaking sap. From a distance, it looked like a small
hummingbird or one of those big wasps/hornets with the two white bands
around the thorax. At any rate, this one was moving like a hummingbird
- no fluttering, and it was very fast. It also never came fully to
rest - the wings were almost always going, and it was constantly
moving. I assume it is some sort of moth, but it sure didn't move
like any moth I've ever seen. Anyone know what this is:

http://www.pbase.com/sirchandestroy/image/60997782
http://www.pbase.com/sirchandestroy/image/60997784
http://www.pbase.com/sirchandestroy/image/60997786
http://www.pbase.com/sirchandestroy/image/60997788


It's a hummingbird moth. They're pretty cool, actually.

http://www.coopext.colostate.edu/4DM...s/hummingb.htm

Thanks, man - that's exactly what it was. I had never seen one
before...

wrote:

This afternoon saw this moth (I guess) flying around a tree in my yard
that is leaking sap. From a distance, it looked like a small
hummingbird or one of those big wasps/hornets with the two white bands
around the thorax. At any rate, this one was moving like a hummingbird
- no fluttering, and it was very fast. It also never came fully to
rest - the wings were almost always going, and it was constantly
moving. I assume it is some sort of moth, but it sure didn't move
like any moth I've ever seen. Anyone know what this is:

http://www.pbase.com/sirchandestroy/image/60997782
http://www.pbase.com/sirchandestroy/image/60997784
http://www.pbase.com/sirchandestroy/image/60997786
http://www.pbase.com/sirchandestroy/image/60997788


Ben,

Post your pictures (or links to the pictures) in
news:alt.binaries.pictures.nature and someone will be able to tell you.
--
Bill R. (Ohio Valley, U.S.A)

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To see pictures from my garden visit http://members.iglou.com/brosen

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wrote:

This afternoon saw this moth (I guess) flying around a tree in my yard
that is leaking sap. From a distance, it looked like a small
hummingbird or one of those big wasps/hornets with the two white bands
around the thorax. At any rate, this one was moving like a hummingbird
- no fluttering, and it was very fast. It also never came fully to
rest - the wings were almost always going, and it was constantly
moving. I assume it is some sort of moth, but it sure didn't move
like any moth I've ever seen. Anyone know what this is:

http://www.pbase.com/sirchandestroy/image/60997782
http://www.pbase.com/sirchandestroy/image/60997784
http://www.pbase.com/sirchandestroy/image/60997786
http://www.pbase.com/sirchandestroy/image/60997788

Since you've already been answered with regard to the species I'll just post
a comment here. You seldom see them because they are mostly nocturnal, but
in some parts of the US they are (or at least 20 years ago were) quite
common. When I lived in north Florida, at night you could shine a bright
light on the jasmine and you'd see a dozen little eyes reflecting it,
sphinx moths sucking nectar. A lovely example of parallel evolution to
fill an ecological niche.

--
--John
to email, dial "usenet" and validate
(was jclarke at eye bee em dot net)

wrote:
This afternoon saw this moth (I guess) flying around a tree in my yard
that is leaking sap. From a distance, it looked like a small
hummingbird or one of those big wasps/hornets with the two white bands
around the thorax. At any rate, this one was moving like a hummingbird
- no fluttering, and it was very fast. It also never came fully to
rest - the wings were almost always going, and it was constantly
moving. I assume it is some sort of moth, but it sure didn't move
like any moth I've ever seen. Anyone know what this is:

http://www.pbase.com/sirchandestroy/image/60997782
http://www.pbase.com/sirchandestroy/image/60997784
http://www.pbase.com/sirchandestroy/image/60997786
http://www.pbase.com/sirchandestroy/image/60997788

More officially known as a Sphinx Moth, if you have tomatoes watch out,
their larva is the tomato hornworm. Big green things (some last summer
were 4-5 inches long) that eat constantly. Thought it was nice there
were alot around our house last summer, 'til I had to pull 50 or 60
hornworms off our tomatoes.
Nice set of photos, hard to find them still.

Tom

Tom