FOOLED YOU! It's a Hummingbird Moth. It has characteristics of all three. It flies like a hummingbird looks like a bee, but it's moth. It hovers from flower to flower sipping nectar. Enjoy my photos. Devin's Nature Blog.
These are beautiful pictures! I too have never seen a hummingbird moth before. But I am def. going to keep my eyes peeled for one from now on! Keep up the great work!
Hey Devin, LOVE your photographs ! I am now so open to looking closer to see if I can find such beauty myself. As a photographer,I was wondering if you could post a few words about how you used the camera. Like the image of the pickerel frog that looks to have some coloring,but the background looks as if it were a black and white photograph. ?Or photo shopped? I absolutely love your blog. THANK YOU!
I saw something similar on the Hummingbird Bushes on our deck. I followed it, like a child, from plant to plant.I did get a VERY CLOSE look at it.The creature I saw IS a hummingBIRD.It does resemble a Bumble Bee. It's tail FEATHERS mimic bee "fuzz/fur".The "antennae" are destinctly FEATHERS,so I don't think it is a moth or a bee, but a BIRD. It has 2 BIRD legs. I truly need to photograph it. So fascinating.
never seen anything like this in my life !! im 60 yrs old and was in the my side yard with my grand daughter and wife and seen this and said to my wife look at these humming birds , as I looked I told her omg what are they my honey suckle tree was full of them , I took pictures and still cant believe what I seen never ever hear of them and they are great to watch, even come up close to you and sound like hummingbirds , I gave the picture to a science teacher and they said that that is what it is ,, looks just like one and friendly ,,,,
I took my dog out, and was standing next to my honey suckle plant, at first I didn't know what I was looking at, never seen anything like it well with a lot of patients I trapped it between my hands, and took a good look at it. I looked it up in the pc, and found out it was a moth humming bird. I did not even knew they existed. I was fascinated by this experience.
Great photos. I never saw a hummingbird moth before. They look like they belong in a science fiction movie.
ReplyDeleteThese are beautiful pictures! I too have never seen a hummingbird moth before. But I am def. going to keep my eyes peeled for one from now on! Keep up the great work!
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely amazing!
ReplyDeleteI've never seen anything like this before.
You have a lot of patience to capture this moth on film.
Love, Mary
Nice pictures devin have not seen a humming bird moth before and those are some cool facts. From srikant
ReplyDeleteHey Devin,
ReplyDeleteLOVE your photographs !
I am now so open to looking closer to see if I can find such beauty myself.
As a photographer,I was wondering if you could post a few words about how you used the camera.
Like the image of the pickerel frog that looks to have some coloring,but the background looks as if it were a black and white photograph.
?Or photo shopped?
I absolutely love your blog.
THANK YOU!
yes, i saw this "thing" in my garden everyday the past weeks.I thought it was a bee humming bird..it look like a bird when it flew around..Thank you !
ReplyDeleteAnd one question.how did you manage to get these pictures?i remembered this moth, it fly so extremely fast! im just impressed!
ReplyDeleteI think you may be right, but aren't a moth's antennae supposed to be feathered?
ReplyDeleteI saw these little things once, and my friends and I were fooled as well! Possibly some of the best camouflage ever created by mother nature!
ReplyDeleteI saw something similar on the Hummingbird Bushes on our deck. I followed it, like a child, from plant to plant.I did get a VERY CLOSE look at it.The creature I saw IS a hummingBIRD.It does resemble a Bumble Bee. It's tail FEATHERS mimic bee "fuzz/fur".The "antennae" are destinctly FEATHERS,so I don't think it is a moth or a bee, but a BIRD. It has 2 BIRD legs. I truly need to photograph it. So fascinating.
ReplyDeletenever seen anything like this in my life !! im 60 yrs old and was in the my side yard with my grand daughter and wife and seen this and said to my wife look at these humming birds , as I looked I told her omg what are they my honey suckle tree was full of them , I took pictures and still cant believe what I seen never ever hear of them and they are great to watch, even come up close to you and sound like hummingbirds , I gave the picture to a science teacher and they said that that is what it is ,, looks just like one and friendly ,,,,
ReplyDeleteI took my dog out, and was standing next to my honey suckle plant, at first I didn't know what I was looking at, never seen anything like it well with a lot of patients I trapped it between my hands, and took a good look at it. I looked it up in the pc, and found out it was a moth humming bird. I did not even knew they existed. I was fascinated by this experience.
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