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PICTURE OF THE WEEK: "HUMMINGBIRD MOTH" 6/28/09

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Welcome to WildlifeTheater.com. All of the videos (except 1) on this site and almost all of the photographs you'll find here were taken in our small yard in the middle of suburbia in Memphis, TN. I hope you'll see that you don't have to have an "estate" or live far away from civilization to find, attract and nurture a wide variety of wildlife. Enjoy, and come back often.

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This Snowberry Clearwing Moth -- and a similar moth called the Nessus Sphinx -- are commonly referred to as Hummingbird Moths because they're often mistaken for very small hummingbirds. The first time I saw one I thought it was a bumblebee. The one in these photos spent several minutes drinking from the flowers of a white butterfly bush and wasn't camera shy at all. The blue on the wing in the photo on the right is a reflection of the sky, not part of the moth's coloring.