why didnt u capture it

never seen it before.

It’s a hummingbird moth, I believe. Let me go check… Yes, here it is on my most favorite site :
http://www.whatsthatbug.com/clearwing_moth.html
Class Insecta
Order Lepidoptera
Family Sphingidae, the Hummingbird Moths.

ps – Neat pictures! I think those would be so fun to see live, I never have.

My pleasure, you have no idea how happy I was to help! 🙂 BTW be sure to show us if you get any more pictures! And please don’t smash it 😉 Bug Love!

Very cool pictures!

My grandmother used to call them "Millers". I recall one that got into the house when I was a kid & I thought it was the coolest thing (after I got over being afraid it was a bee!)

I haven’t seen one in years.

BTW, thank you VERY much for the information regarding exactly what this is.

It is actually an alien scout, sent to our planet to spy on human activity.

Next time you see one, you should capture and interrogate it.

I`ve seen something like that in the garden, but it was huge, the size of a small bird and it was grey with orange stripes.

That’s freaky.
And why can’t they just name it Hummingmoth? 😛

I work in the garden center of my store. While watering my eye was caught by what I thought was a hummingbird. I watched it until it flew away. When I got home I researched and found that it is a Clearwing Moth. How interesting. I wished I had my cell phone so I could took its picture. Now that I know what it is I understand why it was not afraid of me like hummingbirds usually are. Why would you want to capture it? It is to fun to see them in the wild.