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Published: 2018-09-07 15:49:17 +0000 UTC; Views: 395; Favourites: 40; Downloads: 0
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Hi, I found this one today while out... Enjoy!
kinda pressed for time, will give full description and name later.
Hi, I'm back.... this is a Hyles Gallii, the Bedstraw Hawk Moth or Gallium Sphinx Moth. I found it along the dirt path between fields,in some low brush.
This is the 2nd pic I got of it...when I went to move some leaves out of the way for a better first pic, it flew a very short distance and landed here on the forest floor. I'm really happy it did that, as now I have a pic of it's wings unfolded, showing all the bright color patterns it displays in flight...
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Comments: 6
Dgs-Krieger [2018-09-08 06:41:45 +0000 UTC]
Sphinx are awesome. It is pretty funny how hummingbirds have made a massive evolutionary loop to end at the same place as them.
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natureguy In reply to Dgs-Krieger [2018-09-08 10:47:23 +0000 UTC]
Hi, Yeah it is...
They found a food source that other birds weren't using,and made the change to exploit that food..nature is pretty cool in doing that.
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natureguy In reply to Fractaldragon [2018-09-07 22:16:01 +0000 UTC]
Hi, Thanks
Yeah they are really cool looking
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