You are not only going to have to indulge me a little with this post, but you’ll have to use your imagination also. There I was, just heading out with Ozzie to check the mail and something caught my eye. I see enough posts of birds and insects that when I saw this creature I knew instantly what it was, and that when I see posts about them people are quite excited to see them. So I was excited, but didn’t have a camera with me, or even the phone. I know Ozzie thinks I’m nuts when I suddenly make a mad dash into the house, but he’s used to me. Lately I’ve been less than successful with what I have thought to be my easy, and unbeatable, iPhone technique to catch butterflies. Lock your focus in on a flower about three feet from your camera, then chase the butterflies around shooting bursts. I get a LOT of photos that way, but usually some are usable. But this moth was as hard to capture as an actual hummingbird. He zoomed frantically around the flowers, his wings especially never stopped moving, and he liked to hide in the depths of the plumbago. At best these photos only prove that yes, I did see what I thought I saw. And you know what, most of the images of these things that I’ve seen online aren’t a lot sharper. So these are as good as it gets.
Of course I googled them and they appear in warm climates and like honeysuckle type flowers. Excuse me while I go check the honeysuckle growing on my neighbor’s shed…
