Re: humming bird moth photo

Keith Edkins wrote:
> "rw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > Here's a link to what I think is a decent photo of a humming bird moth
> > feeding on the Lobelia in my garden.
> >
> >  http://home.earthlink.net/~royalwulff/web/DCP_0865.JPG
> >
> > It's approximately life size on my monitor. What a cool bug.
>
>
> Decent photo, but not a humming bird moth (Macroglossum stellatarum). Surely
> it's a Striped Hawk-moth (Hyles livornica) - a scarcer migrant, but seems to
> be having quite a good year.
> http://cgi.ukmoths.force9.co.uk/show.php?id=884
> http://www.migrantmoth.com/newsletter03a.htm
> http://www.leps.it/SpeciesPages/HylesLivor.htm

That's for the correction (if, in fact, it's a correct correction. :-) I 
looked up humming bird moth on the Web and it was a dead ringer for what 
I saw.) I'll check those links when I have more time.

BTW, I live at about 6400 ft. altitude at the base of the Sawtooth 
Mountains in central Idaho, USA. We don't get many insects, I suppose 
because the night time temperatures often dip below freezing even in the 
summer. At this time of the year the raptors are gathering for their 
migration and passing though the basin, so it's a great time for birding.