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Title: please anyone can name this insect (fly)?
Post by: Yuet_Lee on June 22, 2006, 10:45:46

hi there,
please anyone know what is this fly? Are they king fisher? I know they're not! What is it please? ???They are beautiful!
(http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j114/millyle/fly11.jpg)

(http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j114/millyle/fly12.jpg)

Title: Re: please anyone can name this insect (fly)?
Post by: deboydoyd on June 22, 2006, 10:59:23

Its a hummingbird hawkmoth--fly during the day, drink nectar from flowers and look surprisingly like a hummingbird. Nice pictures

Title: Re: please anyone can name this insect (fly)?
Post by: David R on June 22, 2006, 16:52:20

Yeah, moth.

They are fantastic creatures and are often found around buddlieas

Title: Re: please anyone can name this insect (fly)?
Post by: Yuet_Lee on June 22, 2006, 21:10:23

Thank you very much Deboy & David! ;)

Title: Re: please anyone can name this insect (fly)?
Post by: littlegem on July 01, 2006, 19:46:26

how lucky you are to have such a visitor, migrant from much warmer southern climes, especially so far north, probably many local entomolists who would be very interested(oh)

Title: Re: please anyone can name this insect (fly)?
Post by: Yuet_Lee on July 03, 2006, 10:46:32

Yes littlegem.  Is lucky I have brought my camera with me that day ;) I love it!

Title: Re: please anyone can name this insect (fly)?
Post by: Heldi on July 12, 2006, 13:22:24

Aaaaaaaaaah!!!!   :o  :o  I've just ran inside to tell you I've just seen one about 5 mins ago, I was busy hanging out my washing when I turned around to go back inside and this amazing little critter flew up and helped itself to my dianthus "Tickled Pink"  I AM tickled pink! Wow!   ;D  ;D  ;D

Have planted a Buddliea this year, woo hoo,might get some more of these little lovelies. Or is this just a freak occurance?? Hope not.

Title: Re: please anyone can name this insect (fly)?
Post by: Robert_Brenchley on July 12, 2006, 13:40:17

They're migrants which arrive in large numbers in odd years; the last time was in 2000. So they're going to be very unpredictable, but worth watching for. I remember thousands upon thousands of Clouded Yellow butterflies arriving in Cornwall in 1983; that summer I saw two Pale Couded Yellow, which are normally extremely rare, one of them in my own garden. You never know.

Title: Re: please anyone can name this insect (fly)?
Post by: Yuet_Lee on July 12, 2006, 19:39:32

I haven't seen this little thing since :(
I love to see it again. Hope it'll be back sometime in this summer ::)

Title: Re: please anyone can name this insect (fly)?
Post by: Toadspawn on July 12, 2006, 23:28:30

Saw a Hummingbird hawkmoth today for the first time this year. Saw a few last year.