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This is not a Hummingbird!

If I only had a dollar for every time I have heard someone say;
Oh, isn't that a cute little hummingbird.

Believe me folks, what you're about to see is not a hummingbird.
It's a;

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White-lined Sphinx Moth.

Some call it a Hawk Moth. However there is a moth that is called an Elephant Hawk Moth and it looks much different from this one.

2 1/2 to 3 1/2 inches. 4 wings. Front wing brown with a white streak. Back wing is mostly all pink. Most people do not notice it has 4 wings. Range is through out the U.S..

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You can readily see all 4 wings in this image.
2 brown ones in front, 2pink ones in the rear.

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Its left wing must be moving faster than the right one,
or at a different rate, because the camera did not stop the wing movement or action.

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In this photo just opposite has happened. The camera was able to stop the left wing movement and not the right wing's movement.

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It you look closely at the wings, you can see they moving in different directions.

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It would seem as though I have put the horse ahead of the cart on this page,
as the old saying goes. Just where did this moth come from? Was it hatched? Was it born live?

You most likely would not recognize it if you were to see it before it became a moth.
There are two or more generations of these moths a year.
One may lie dormant under ground through the winter months as a pupae.

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On the left of this image is the head end.
The thorn like object on the right is the back end.
In picking this worm up I found that the thorn/horn thing on its back end is not sharp.

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A closer look at the head of this worm.

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A closer look at the tail end of the worm

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A moth that's needs to be Identified please.

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