[TN-Bird] Snowberry Clearwing "Hummingbird" Moth

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While our typical mid-summer Ruby-throated hummingbird population has  
arrived, we were somewhat surprised yesterday at an unknown visitor to our  
backyard. With hummingbird like actions, visiting our trumpet-vine hedge and 
our  
perennial sage (red) plants, then perching on a branch, the visitor initially  
had 
the appearance of a plovercrest with its long, wispy antennae  (crest). 
However, with closer inspection it was not so quickly identified  as a 
Snowberry 
Clearwing "hummingbird" moth.
 
The Snowberry Clearwing is approximately 2 inches in length and  perhaps 
resembles a large bumblebee more than a hummingbird but this clearwing  moth 
looked and acted so much like a hummingbird that it took a long,  second look 
from 
this experienced birder to be viewed otherwise.
 
 

 
 
Good birding,
 
Dennis Whittington
Johnson City
Washington County, TN
 

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