Date: 07/27/2019

Number: 1

Saturday was the BEST day yet in my garden. Early morning there was a small female Ruby throated HB on the feeder while a black swallowtail fed on red salvia right below the feeder. There were lots of other BF visitors as well, including a Monarch, a young yellow swallowtail, the HB visited repeatedly and often perched herself on the clothes line over the zinnias resting.
Around 4pm, a VERY strange visitor appeared. It looks like a cross between a Carpenter bumble bee (with a fuzzy yellow and black coat), a BF (with larger double wings), a HB (b/c the wings flap so fast one can hear them but cannot see them, and b/c it has a proboscis) and a mermaid b/c of the shape of the tail. I have seen these insects before but never the same one. This one was yellow&black. The ones I have seen previously were green and red and I mistook them for a HB until I had a closer look.

I found a photo on the internet of that bug. It is a Hummingbird Moth!
I was visited by two of them the same day, one yellow/black the other green and brown.

Arlington, VA

Latitude: 38.9 Longitude: -77.1

Observed by: deborah
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