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Can you identify this insect?

Started 7 months ago | Questions thread
ThrillaMozilla Veteran Member • Posts: 7,658
Re: Can you identify this insect?
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MacroLunchtimes wrote:

Broad Bordered Bee hawk moth...not a hummingbird hawkmoth

Well, I'm not a moth guy, but it doesn't look like that to me.  There's a problem with common names, isn't there? I just read that a hummingbird moth is the the common name for the genus Hemaris, not a single species.

Hummingbird moth (Clearwing moth)

Hummingbird moths

Broad-bordered bee hawk moth

Broad bordered bee hawk moth

Narrow-bordered bee hawk moth

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