FreeLists / tn-bird / [tn-bird] butterfly bush insect visitor

["Thais Carr" <carrtk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm curious if anyone knows what the hovering insect in my butterfly bushes 
is.  It hovers like a hummer while enjoying nectar but has a moth-type 
body, fat and fuzzy.  (OK, so maybe the serious butterfly folks will scold 
me for such a  vague characterization).  Dark wings. Had a funny show 
this morning watching a thrasher give a blue jay a "taste of his own 
medicine"-that is, pushing him/her around on the platform feeder   forcing 
it to leave until the thrasher finished feeding.

Thais Carr, Thompsons Station

 

 

 


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