Yesterday I looked through the window & there was a strange insect on the flowers. OH tried to get a picture but it was so fast. At first I thought it was a moth, its wings were going so fast. Its back end looked like a bee, at the front it had what looked like a set of 3 anteni & it was pushing the central one into the flowers of perovski & plumbgo.
We would really love to know what it was.
How about a hummingbird hawk moth? Google that and have a look at Images.
Like Peanuts, it does sound like the hummingbird hawk moth.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/IC_Macroglossum_stellatarum1_NR.jpg/712px-IC_Macroglossum_stellatarum1_NR.jpg)
Wow who managed to take that pic?
Quote from: Digeroo on August 01, 2013, 18:51:36
Wow who managed to take that pic?
My apologies, I should have attributed the image: It was taken by Wikipedia user IronChris (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:IronChris), was taken July 7th, 2006. Rhône, France. It is used under the following licence: Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:GNU_Free_Documentation_License), Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Free_Software_Foundation); with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:GNU_Free_Documentation_License_1.2). See here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hummingbird_hawk_moth).
That's the one :icon_cheers:. Thank you.
They are amazing aren't they.
They certainly are amazing. It's the first time we've both seen one.
I would bet that we'll see a lot more of them this year, if the weather stays settled.