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.
>
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> 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
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> Keith Edkins
Keith Edkins wrote:


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> "rw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> > 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.

After a little more research, I'm pretty sure it was a White-lined 
Sphinx Moth, Hyles lineata.

http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/distr/lepid/moths/usa/1066.htm

It's looks (to my untrained eye) pretty much like your Hyles livornica, 
but I can't find any reference for that species in the western US.