>Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 22:14:15 -0500
>From: Lanny Chambers <creative@INLINK.COM>
>Subject: Re: Sphinx Moth?

>On 8/11/99 21:12, Karen Taylor kataylor@JERSEY.NET wrote:
>
>>What is the thing hovering over my flowers at night. Is there
>>any pictures and info anywere? Someone could mistake this for
>>a Hummer.

>Indeed they do; I get frequent email--sometimes 3 or 4 a day--asking for
>IDs on "baby hummingbirds" that feed at night and have weird colors.
>There must be scores of species of sphinx, hawk, and clearwing moths that
>resemble hummers in flight and feeding. Try these web sites for photos of
>some of them:
>
>http://www.npsc.nbs.gov/resource/distr/lepid/moths/mothsusa.htm