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)
Its a hummingbird hawkmoth--fly during the day, drink nectar from flowers and look surprisingly like a hummingbird. Nice pictures
Yeah, moth.
They are fantastic creatures and are often found around buddlieas
Thank you very much Deboy & David! ;)
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)
Yes littlegem. Is lucky I have brought my camera with me that day ;) I love it!
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.
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.
I haven't seen this little thing since :(
I love to see it again. Hope it'll be back sometime in this summer ::)
Saw a Hummingbird hawkmoth today for the first time this year. Saw a few last year.