Caterpillars grow to a robust 4 inches in length and adult wingspans can measure more than 5 inches. In all stages of their life, these insects are large. The winged wonder I saw that summer night was a sphinx moth, also called a hummingbird or hawk moth because of their large size and bird-like characteristics. A mistake, in fact, that has given this critter one of its many nicknames. If you’re thinking that I must have seen a hummingbird, you would be making a very common mistake. I was mesmerized, and struggled for a closer look. Download file | Play in new window | Duration: 3:33 | Recorded on September 8, 2011īI vividly remember the first time I saw one – a small winged creature whirring from flower to flower in the evening light, its long tongue dipping for nectar within tube-shaped blooms.
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