Flying insect ID?
Aug 29, 2020 14:26:14 #
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Aug 29, 2020 14:32:58 #
bleirer wrote:
are you serious that is what it is called?
Most definitely -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemaris
Aug 29, 2020 14:57:34 #
Great shot!! I've yet to see one here, much less get a photo, and yours is really nice! I have moth envy! 
Aug 29, 2020 14:59:39 #
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Aug 29, 2020 17:22:44 #
JRiepe wrote:
Super cool shot. I've only seen pictures of them.
I too have never seen one in the wild. Great shot bleirer!
Aug 29, 2020 17:29:36 #
Aug 29, 2020 17:31:15 #
CHG_CANON wrote:
I too have never seen one in the wild. Great shot bleirer!
Thanks. Totally by chance, my new to me 100-400 goes everywhere I go as long as it is in my backyard.
Aug 30, 2020 06:36:13 #
bleirer wrote:
Looked like a very small hummingbird the way it hovered and used its proboscis.
Great image !!!!
Aug 30, 2020 08:16:58 #
It is indeed a humming bird moth. A clearing humming bird moth. There is another species here in Maryland called a snowberry clearing humming bird moth, it has a yellow back as opposed to the greenish one in your photo. I have a butterfly bush in my back yard and they are frequent visitors. I use my sigma 150-600 @ 600 and have gotten some great shots.
Aug 30, 2020 08:44:13 #
Thank you to all that replied. I guess chance favors the prepared mind, as Louis Pasteur I think said. Or chance favors the person with the big white lens.
Aug 30, 2020 09:00:18 #
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