When I went out to check the rain gauge this morning, this big beautiful Hummingbird Clearwing (Hemaris thysbe) buzzed past me to get to the Chinese Abelia (Abelia chinensis). This beauty is a moth, not a bird.
Note the green and red coloring with the white legs. That’s how you tell this Clearwing from others, including the Snowberry Clearwing I saw a few days ago. Bruce says it looks like a furry flying lobster. Hard to disagree with that!
