Mystery Bug: What is It??????

[ByuBill]

<font color=blue>Referring to this site, I believe it to be a Slender Clearwing.</font color=blue>

After going to that site and looking at your photo, I tend to agree with you. I have seen them in La. but haven't seen any in NC as of yet.

On another note. While visiting the site that you refered, I noticed that North Dakota has been moved East of Nova Scotia and Maine. /w3tcompact/icons/hmm.gif Did I sleep too long or something? /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif I'll bet that surprised a lot of people when their road trip to Minn. took them into the ocean. /w3tcompact/icons/eyes.gif

 

[DAP]

South eastern part of Canada has about 1500 miles of virgin ocean frontage too!

 

[patrickg]

See plate tectonics for explanation of apparent mislocation of a portion of the NA continent.

Don't worry good minds are at work on this "problem". See also:

The Wimble family home page,
including information about creating family histories, the Society for
the Prevention of Plate Tectonics,

Patrick

 

[Steven]

I would say it is a hummingbird moth. If you have ever seen one fly around a plant it has the same motions as a hummingbird. It flies in all directions at very fast speeds in and out of the flowers, has a long tube sticking out of its head like a straw. fun to watch. The first time i saw one I had no idea what it was had to look it up in my library of audubon books and there it was.

 

[DAP]

Steven, all 4 of the clearwing moths fly like hummingbirds, or so the literature I've read states.
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