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Can anyone tell me what the name of this insect is? At first I thought they where small hummingbirds since they flock around my front porch, I have tons of morning glorys and a sugar feeder there, it's wierd the hummingbirds are insanly territorial There is a dominant one who chases off these 5 other usurper hummingbirds, 50% of the time there are little hummingbird dogfights going on around my porch screaming their little hummingbird warcrys... What was I talking about? oh yeah, anyway so yeah I saw one of these and I just thought they where amazing, the ones I have look like the picture only they have purple tails that look like shrimps tails, you know with the little fan on the end, and they can bend them up and down like a scorpian.
>> R.D. !!qFhBIHR1ap8
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macroglossum_stellatarum

That's it.
We had them in our garden and they really scared the hell outta me.
Because of the global warming, they are common now, even in colder regions of the world.
>> Anonymous
I once saw a resting one on my trip to croatia, but never a flying one... :,(
>> Anonymous
holy shit, i thought that thing was a shop.
>> Anonymous
Another long ass story time, Okay last night There was this giant (much bigger then the
Macroglossum_stellatarum) And I thought it was really a hummingbird this time, it kept going in circles around my living room so I opened my door and it NEARLY flew out but it flew an inch too high and then ran into my hallway and behind my bookcase which at this point is just 1 solid mass of spiderwebs. So I thought I doomed the poor Moth-thing, but I saw it was still alive and just hanging on to the side of the book case, I went and got a brass pipe to nudge it out, a noodle strainer and piece of paper to capture it in and let it outside, but when I got back it was gone, I had already spent about 2 hours trying to rescue it so I decided to go to sleep when I wake up it's crawled on my floor and I nearly stepped on it, I put it in a giant coffee can and I put it outside but it has not moved since, It's still alive but it's just sort of sitting there, while checking out the species of hawk moth I stumbled on this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daphnis_nerii and there is not a shred of doubt in my mind that is what this thing is, It has the EXACT same coloration as the picture, but I live in North america and the wiki entry says you are lucky to see it in europe, so I'm wondering what the hells going on, and if It's nocturnal which is why it's not leaving the coffee can. if you bothered to read this I thank you.
>> Anonymous
>>291405
Holy shit that bug looks angry. Like he would murder you if he could, Not because he had to just because he wanted to hear you scream.
>> Anonymous
I have those too!! Swarming around our butterfly and hummingbird bushes. I thought, like you, they were hummingbirds until I looked at one real closely one day and was scared shitless. I found out recently that they are called Hummingbird Hawk Moths.
>> Moo !XBOXgikTFw
>>291472
A little-known fact is that their wings are anger-powered!
>> Anonymous
I think I may have seen one of these...

I live in Indiana. I was outside at night, I noticed something flying around our garage. It was attracted to the light above our garage, but not so attracted that it would bounce off the fixture like the other moths.

This guy was two or three inches long, though. o_o At least. It was so large, in fact, that its eyes cast off a glow. Kind of like the way an animal's eyes glow when the light hits them just right.

It got into our garage, so I had to get it out. I caught it in an old butterfly net, but I was a little too scared to get a really close look at it. Its color was neutral. This was a couple years ago, but if I remember correctly, it was kind of a cream or tan color, as opposed to the darker brown.

Any thoughts on what this one might have been? I've never seen another like it.
>> Anonymous
It's the Bee of the Bird of the Moth!