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<\/a>\nI’ve only ever seen one other hummingbird moth and it was very deep red color and much bigger -it really looked like a hummingbird. <\/p>\n
Where this one had the same overall shape and motion of the hummingbird moth, it was the size and coloring of a jumbo bumble bee. In fact it was in amongst the bubble bees feeding and I almost didn’t notice him as I walked by. <\/p>\n
I kicked myself for not thinking to make a video of it, as they are so nifty to watch. But then I remembered, this is the YouTube and Google age, so here is a little video<\/a> of this moth on the go. <\/p>\n I’m not sure why, but all the videos I found on hummingbird moths, the soundtracks were really annoying. I pick the two best I could find. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Nothing heavy duty here, just some pictures from a cool moth day at work. I got to see a hummingbird moth, it’s a snowberry clearwing hummingbird moth. I’ve only ever seen one other hummingbird moth and it was very deep red color and much bigger -it really looked like a hummingbird. Where this one had […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atalantarising.surly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atalantarising.surly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atalantarising.surly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atalantarising.surly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atalantarising.surly.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4722"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/atalantarising.surly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4823,"href":"https:\/\/atalantarising.surly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4722\/revisions\/4823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atalantarising.surly.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atalantarising.surly.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atalantarising.surly.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"IMG_5825\"](\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7105\/7134722131_bb0b5cbe9d.jpg\")
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\n Here’s a video<\/a> of the other type of hummingbird moth I’ve seen before. I was really excited to see another one. It had been so long since I had seen that first one, I was beginning to think I made it up in my head!<\/p>\n