Talk:Hemaris

Hummingbird Moths Are Smart

The photo marked "Hummingbird moth feeding on impatiens", and the species mentioned by Lwinklerls, is in fact a White-lined Sphinx, Hyles lineata.

You're right. Fixed.--72.200.197.225 (talk) 02:36, 8 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

--Lwinklerls (talk) 16:54, 9 September 2011 (UTC) == September 8, 2011: Hummingbird Moth sighted in Phoenix, Arizona, USA ==[reply]

We sighted what we believe to be a Hummingbird (Hawk?) Moth feeding at one of our flower pots just outside of Phoenix, a desert landscape, with current temperatures at 100+ Fahrenheit. The body was approx. 6 cm long, and the background color of its body and wings was a pinkish beige with dark (brown?) multiple thin horizontal striping across its entire body which continued across its wings when flying. The 8 or 10 stripes were perfectly parallel with each other and very uniform. The body did not appear to be "furry" like some moths, but rather meaty looking. The little fellow had no fear of us as we approached very close. A hummingbird flew in only to check it out and the moth flew away but immediately returned to its feeding. It left the area only after it finished its meal. I regret that I didn't have a camera to document its presence and exact species, and I haven't found anything like it in my subsequent on-line research. Lwinklerls (talk) 16:54, 9 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Species ID?

Is this guy a Hemaris?

Photo from Los Alamos, NM. I added a cool feeding photo to the article, but now I'm not sure he belongs here.

Removed, I'm thinking he's a Hyles lineata variant. ID help appreciated, not a moth guy! TIA, Pete Tillman (talk) 02:01, 13 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Number of North and South American species

Hi, I've updated the article to say that the number of North American species is five, in light of Schmidt (2018) splitting H. aethra from H. diffinis. H. aethra was already present in the species list, they just hadn't updated the sentence above to "five species". As far as I can tell, there are no Hemaris species in South America, so I removed that for clarity. I am working on an article draft for aethra, as it's the only species currently missing an article—it should be ready very soon. -- Dicynodont (talk) 19:06, 17 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]