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Who Has These As Pets......... http://www.birds-n-garden.com/white-...ird_moths.html http://creationview.com/Humming%20Bird%20Moth.html Okay we dont have them outside but they live in our flower bush and around our house. I found them first and thought they were humming birds from a distance because they are so big for a moth but little like a humming bird and their wings move super super fast. So i ran and got my mom because we love nature and humming birds. so we went by the flower bush and realized they were letting us get too close to them for them to be humming birds and seen they were big moths. They are soo beautiful!!! and if you hold a flower it will drink out of it in your hand. They eat like humming birds by hovering in front of the flower drinking the nectar. They arent around as much this year as last year but they fly in our garage all the time and sit in there with us lol and sometimes land on you. but we try to keep them out of there because our cat likes to try to catch them. anyways i wanted to show yall and we call them our pets lol! I have some pretty pictures of the actual ones flying around our house but i have to find them. but this gives you a look at them on this website! |
i dont know if most of them are in TX or what. Just wondering if anyone else has seen them? |
Wow, those moths are beautiful indeed! We only get the gray, common moths where I live. |
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I'm so jealous!! I've never seen anything like that!! |
Amazing and beautiful markings. |
We have these in Louisiana and we call them hummingbird moths, they are beautiful and so cool because you can get so close to them. |
I live in the Mojave Desert and saw them for the first time this spring. They are amazing. I thought they were hummingbirds too (we have a LOT of hummingbirds) I couldn't believe when I found out they were a moth. Sonya |
We get them here and when I first saw one, I also thought it was a hummingbird! They are quite amazing. I didn't see any this summer, but I wasn't outside working on flowers as I normally do, so I probably just missed them. I don't like moths, but these are so amazing! |
wow weird never seen one like that before!! |
That is really neat. I'd love to feed them. |
Those are very beautiful!!! thanks for sharing |
Those are really cool. I've never seen/heard of them before. All we get around here are those ginormous tobacco moths. |
Yeah when we have friends or people in the garage with us and they see something huge flying around their heads lol they say what the hell is that! We just tell them ohh dont worry those are our pets. hahaha. One hit me in the head last night lol. but like i said when i had the other bedroom in my house right outside my window was the flower bush that they love and i seen them all the time and that was last year. now all i see them is at night in the garage when the neon lights are on from all the signs and stuff. (bar in our garage) |
They are so beautiful and I don't think we get them here up north but did you read the description? They are bad for crops. :( |
I google them and here are the regions they have been reported in... Heflin, Alabama Compton, Arkansas Rathdrum, Idaho Troy, Illinois Jeffersonville, Indiana Noblesville, Indiana (2 reports) Cedar Rapids, Iowa Benton, Kentucky Boonsboro, Maryland Brimfield, Massachusetts Halifax, Massachusetts Marshfield, Massachusetts Howell, Michigan Piedmont, Missouri Hudson, New Hampshire Oak Ridge, New Jersey Mechanicville, New York Elizabeth City, North Carolina Hillsborough, North Carolina Oxford, North Carolina Raleigh, North Carolina Bucyrus, Ohio Cincinnati, Ohio Corning, Ohio Hubbard, Ohio New Madison, Ohio Alexandria, Pennsylvania Alexandria, Virginia Fredericksburg, Virginia Menasha, Wisconsin West Bend, Wisconsin Order: Lepidoptera (le-pid-OP-ter-a) (Info) Family: Sphingidae (SFIN-gi-dee) (Info) Genus: Hemaris Species: thysbe |
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I know...Very weird...maybe this is an old website not sure...Or maybe you should report them!! ?? I dont know how it works exactly...maybe there are different "breeds" like in hummingbirds?? |
well my stepdad doesnt have our pics anymore of them so im gonna have to try to take one. BUT my sister in law might have them still but we dont like each other lol so i might get my stepdad to ask her for them. Shes the one that took them. |
that would be cool if you could get them and report it ! |
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hahahaha thats too funny! i know i should report them but its soo difficult to get a pic! last summer it wasnt because they were always in our flower bush but this time like i said i only see them at night really! and unless he lands in a good clear spot for my camera to get it wont be any good! |
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We have them here in NE Ohio, too. My ex-mother in law planted butterfly bushes in her garden one summer, and they were buzzing all over them! We all thought they were baby humming birds! No one else around here seems to know what I'm talking about though; we even have butterfly bushes at my preschool, but I haven't seen any. Maybe they were specific to my ex-husband's yard??? :rolleyes: -O |
I have seen these on my pool screen! We have tons of hibicus flowering most of the year. Maybe that is what attracts them. Hmm never knew what they were called |
Are butterfly bushes called "butterfly bushes"? I want to get some! |
i dont see them in anyone elses yard either lol just ours! i think they know we are nice to them and their our no kids at our house to try and catch them! Its just us , yorkies, cat, and the moths lol! one big happy family! Im going to tell my mom and stepdad to snap pics when they see them!.they see them more than me they work in the yard more than i do lol. |
Thats what they are!!! I caught one last summer so that I could get a really close look at it. It was buzzing my butterfly bushes along with all of the butterflies. I also have humming birds that come to my flower gardens each year.. The one I caught looked just like the green one in the second link that you posted. Thanks for the info. |
Oooooohhh! I live in CA and we have lots of them here. I have given up on growing tomatoes because of these. In the 'hornworm' stage, they can decimate a tomato plant overnight. They are very large and I am scared of them. I played with moths and crickets when I was a child but now I am scared to death of getting one on me.....they are so BIG! My grandaughter made me look really bad when she was four and five years old. When I ran in the house to get away from one, she would say..."Don't be scared, Grandma..I'll catch it so it won't scare you anymore"...and then she would. Gave me the shivers. |
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