A new critter

[Rich]

This guy followed us into our garage last night.
Never heard of such an insect before.
This is a picture of one, the little guy we had was much larger, a wingspan of about seven inches.
It's called a hummingbird moth.
Rich

 

[Nancy]

Uh-oh Silence of the Lambs--remember those moths!!!

 

[Bina]

Nancy, thanks alot.....I'm about to go to bed......and now I'm skeered!!

Actually we've had some monster moths at night too, they can be very interesting.

 

[Freddie]

Sorry Rich I don't like moths BIG or small............nothing pretty about them in my mind

Pretty.....pretty pictures Rich, please.

 

[PairoDocs]

From Pairodocs-Laura

From Pairodocs-Laura

Chris calls them a hawk moth. They fill the same ecologic niche that hummingbirds fill, and we have tons of them in Idaho. My cats love to try to catch them. We may all be thankful for them some day if the honeybee can't make enough recovery. They are fairly good pollinators. The bumblebee, so-called H-bee (a fly camouflaged as a bee), yellow jackets, carpenter bees, sweat bees, and other pollinators native to North America may all become more important.

Nice Night in Idaho,
-Laura