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Coast 
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 Posted: 04 September 2022 at 05:12 |
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Hey Fred, I believe they are Hummingbird Moths?
But anyway come up around my place. My male cat brings me one at least everyday  I can usually rescue it and put it back outside He is a mountain cat and has only one thing on his little mind__The Hunt! He does what male cats do, bring home the food I get small mice and small birds too. Its a riot! but they are dead. I think they die of fright. Never see any blood. All the Best___Joe |
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Posted: 04 September 2022 at 07:02 |
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An update; my girl cat brought this one in tonight
 It was alive and trying to fly away, got this quick pic of it in my fingers. 5 seconds later I had it flying away outside One thing, these hummingbird moths have the most aerodynamic wings I've seen. Look designed for high speeds. To me they are beautiful. Hard to comprehend wings like that on a moth, but they go from flower to flower as fast as the hummingbirds Hence their name I guess. Like I said its a riot in my place 🤷♂️ |
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Posted: 04 September 2022 at 09:06 |
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Hummingbird Hawk-moth
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Posted: 04 September 2022 at 09:36 |
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bless you for releasing it, Joseph! (good karma!
 ). looks more like an UFO to me? ;)  'this' is a hummingbird hawk-moth -usually rare; very 1st encounter in 2015 at dusk-  UBER-CUTE... and incredibly fast indeed!  speeding...  and 'this' is how it got its name; hummingbird 'butterfly' in dutch   according to wiki's distribution map it hasn't emigrated to the US, yet? your hummingbird moths or bee-hawk moths seem to have simular bodies and wings? (notorious box tree moth has a bigger body as well, although different, but moth-like wings and antennae. like --- aliens ;), -in 2016-). seems you live in a different zoo? ;) edit! oops, didn't see Ton's post, while searching for pics.  Edited by angora - 04 September 2022 at 09:40 |
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Fred_S
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Posted: 04 September 2022 at 17:39 |
Thanks for the invite Joe ! You are right about the hummingbird moth, but it has all been explained with some nice examples from Digiton and Angora in the meantime  Cat's are hunters aren't they? That's just nature. |
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Coast
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Posted: 05 September 2022 at 06:58 |
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"bless you for releasing it, Joseph! (good karma! ).
looks more like an UFO to me? ;) " Thank you Angora. It's just something I have to do 🙏 Joseph Those are fabulous captures. The wing movements are spectacular  There aren't many of these critters in downtown San Francisco, so this is all new to me thank you |
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Posted: 14 September 2022 at 18:43 |
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Bont zandoogje (Pararge aegeria)
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svjetlana
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Posted: 16 September 2022 at 22:13 |
  
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Posted: 24 September 2022 at 08:21 |
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Hummingbird Moths here, Hummingbird Moths there, everywhere Hummingbird Moths Always in Awe of those magnificent and superb wings. Otherwise its a pretty ugly thing. 1  2  3 this ones on the floor  4 these I had never seen before, they were there with the other hummingbird moths and the shape of their wings my 1st thought was they are baby hummingbird moths. I don't know. They were less than 1/2 the size of the others  5  All photos taken outside at (on) my home ha ha |
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Posted: 24 September 2022 at 23:20 |
  
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Posted: 25 September 2022 at 10:31 |
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Posted: 25 September 2022 at 22:51 |
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Thanks Fred!
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Posted: 26 September 2022 at 21:06 |
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Posted: 28 September 2022 at 21:37 |
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