Unusual Butterfly ID
Jul 8, 2021 15:21:15 #
downing
Loc: Cincinnati
Photo taken in the Butterfly House at Wilson Nursery in Frankfort KY.
Never seen anything quite like this. Cocoons in the background.
What is the name of this animal?
Never seen anything quite like this. Cocoons in the background.
What is the name of this animal?
Jul 8, 2021 15:28:39 #
It’s actually a moth.
I have always heard them called bumblebee moths.
I have always heard them called bumblebee moths.
Jul 8, 2021 15:33:36 #
downing wrote:
Photo taken in the Butterfly House at Wilson Nursery in Frankfort KY.
Never seen anything quite like this. Cocoons in the background.
What is the name of this animal?
Never seen anything quite like this. Cocoons in the background.
What is the name of this animal?
A beautifully captured hummingbird moth. They fly around like slow motion, drunk hummingbirds, who get all the adulation ☀️🎯☀️
Jul 8, 2021 15:34:49 #
Jul 8, 2021 16:29:15 #
downing
Loc: Cincinnati
BassmanBruce and joecichjr. Thanks for the info. I have looked it up and it is a Male Snowberry Clearwing moth, Hemaris diffinis.
Jul 8, 2021 18:25:40 #
downing wrote:
Photo taken in the Butterfly House at Wilson Nursery in Frankfort KY.
Never seen anything quite like this. Cocoons in the background.
What is the name of this animal?
Never seen anything quite like this. Cocoons in the background.
What is the name of this animal?
Fine image.
Jul 9, 2021 05:29:08 #
downing wrote:
Photo taken in the Butterfly House at Wilson Nursery in Frankfort KY.
Never seen anything quite like this. Cocoons in the background.
What is the name of this animal?
Never seen anything quite like this. Cocoons in the background.
What is the name of this animal?
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