Can You Guess What This Is?

Technically, this is not a Show and Tell item but I couldn't resist sharing this with you because it is unique and totally cool. We were enjoying our back deck when we noticed something buzzing around one of the pots of flowers. We do have hummingbirds from time to time but this looked more like a very tiny, stripped hummingbird. Kind of a cross between a hummingbird and a bumblebee. Naturally, I ran to get my camera and this is the little guy close up. He didn't seem afraid of us and we watched it for a long time. We decided it was a baby hummingbird. Later that night my sister-in-law and I started doing some Internet searching to find out what kind of hummingbird it was, if that indeed was what it was. As it turns out, as far as we can find, it was a Hummingbird Moth! I have never even heard of such a thing before but the picture in the article did look just like our own little friend. The are frequently mistaken for baby hummingbirds because of their size, but they are not particularly afraid of people. They flit around fragrant flowers like hummers and their wings move at that same amazing rate of speed. Gosh, just when you think all the fun is over for the summer God sends along a little surprise to delight you!