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ok i got freaked out today! seen this wierd thing in my phlox, looked like a huge moth, wings were going like a hummers, and it was acting like a bee confused me, i just looked it up. [sorry no pic of my own, cams on the fritz again,] so i did a google search, its a hummingbird clearwing moth
anyone else get these?

yes
hawkmoth
humminbird clearwing
vine spinx
tobbacco spinx

I forget what the yellow one was.I'll look through file.I also had one similar to the rustic spinx,but was white with black.I wish i'd took a picture...maybe next year.Hawkmoths like beer besides flowers.I've watched a hummingbird clearwing on 4 pm flower while it was closed very neat.it will take it feet to spread flower enough to stick in and get a drink.& on my B&B salvia.I've never seen them go to the feeders. whats weird...I see baby hawkmoths sometimes.

I get them too. They love my bee balm, tall phlox, all sorts of blooms.

here is the yellow fella.I think was a luna moth.
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Kinda scary looking! Mothra

wow! njoynit, that lunmoth is awsome! we get them around here but i never seen one!

finaly got a pic of the hummmingbird moth, wish i had a better cam.
its deciding witch phlox to go to next

I seed 'em afore. This here one's called a Snowberry Clearwing Hummingbird Moth.

wow thorny! thats a awsome pic! you can realy see it good!
its amazing how close you can get to them, and they realy dont seem to mind,
i dont have zoom on my camara so i got pretty close, well as close as i could get before it decided to go to another flower, busy things arnt they:}

MY mom always called them bumble bee humming birds.Thank you now I know what they are really called.Thank you.

Yeppers! When I ain't takin' pitchers of the birds, I be out chasin' critters like these.

Cool pics, we have moths like that here. Some are prettier than butterflies.

My butterfly bushes are bringing in an assortment of flying critters. Yesterday there were 2 hummingbirds going at each over them and there were also several of the hummingbird moths as well as butterflies. I have hummingbird feeders, but they are going for the butterfly bushes, tall garden phlox, impatiens, the black and blue salvia, and the delpheninum.

I tried to get a shot of some of the baby ones...maybe better luck tonight.I think they know I'm that lady whos always shooting her flash in the garden blinding them.I'll carry a beer tonight.

The legislature here in Tennessee outlawed the growing or possession of Salvia in Tennessee because it is a Hallucinogenic. I had Salvia last year for the Hummers, but couldn't get it this year. Darn It! After the hummers fed on the Salvia they were SOOO cute lying on my porch, pupils dilated and all glassy-eyed, saying, "Oh, WOW Man! Look at all the colors and trails, Man! That's HEAVY!"

Thorny, lots of Salvia here.(I'll have to hide it on brother-in-law now ) So you can't have it in your gardens at all?

not all of it is that way.Just the divinorum.There's over 900 different salvia plants,some are edible herbs& sage you can buy at grocery store.My sis lives TN and grows some salvias/sages in her own yard.some shes collected wild near the house and areas she frequents.I believe my brother grows some of my forest fire salvia on his porch in planterboxs.He's M'buro. Tn has had some intresting politions..

I'm loading shots now.I caught the hummermoth last night.I think my flash bothers him.makes him fly like he's drunk(they must prefer cans over bottled beer)They are smart buggers.He knows now that when he sees orange light....FLYAWAYFASSSSSSSSSSSSSST!!!!! flash is comeing.Its like now he sees the orange light before the flash and don't like it so he flees.I'll try to catch them earlier.I cooked later so was out later.

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Apparently they outlawed all species of Salvia, although I don't see how they can enforce the ban; the other states around us allow Salvia without restrictions. We are 20 to 30 minutes south of Kentucky and 1 hour north of Alabama here.

this is the one.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvia_divinorum


maybe THIS
http://www.erowid.org/psychoactives/law/states/states_info1.shtml
will help you out.I thought they would not ban over 900 plants.

so grow your other salvias!






here's another shot
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and another
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wow njoynit! thats some awsome pics!

And where can I find this, "Divinorum"

how cool! i have never seen those but in magazines, but i did have 2 luna moths the first summer we were here, they kept flying around me one night on the back deck, it was so neat! :wink:

I saw a dead luna moth in my yard a couple of weeks ago.

My driveway is littered with luna moth wings, the phoebes eat the body. There must have been about 50 of them this year. I have them on the garage door from spring to early summer.

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one of the lil guys

I think the Luna Moth is beautiful!! There is a childrens story book about a Luna Moth with the most beautiful pictures and the story is so sweet!!!

I'll have to tell SIL about the book.My nephew might enjoy reading that.

here's more pics








and a VIDEO :O for those with dialup like me...let the lag do it 's lagging and buffering thing (about 7 long minutes)and when it is finished hit for it to play again and it will veiw right.Its 20 seconds.




Njoy!They R sOOOOOOOOOOO Neatorific!

I had a couple of hummingbird moths in my garden last night.

They are just SO neat.

And mellow. I put my hand right next to him & he just kept going about his business. man those wings move fast!

how come i have never seen one??? do they prefer more open spaces instead of woods? I WANT ONE TO COME!!!!!!!!!

I had a hummingbird moth end up in the house.


I think he was in more than a day.He seemed to fly off like he was drunk& impaired.He did check me out before flying off.I caught him on ceiling with a shirt and closed around him to gt him outside and let him loose in front of 4 pms.He just sat there a sec then took off and was haveing problems staying in air but then flew off finally(stopping at non nectoring flowers.I think he went off to rest in lilyrope& assume was fine.

I found a dead hawkmoth...took advantage.
face shot

(don't that remind ya of a dragonfly?)