What is it?
I am in the Phoenix area. Does anyone know what insect has the following characteristics?
- Has wings with the long shape and fast velocity of a hummingbird.
- Approximately 1/3 - 1/2 the size of a hummingbird.
- Has a long string-like proboscus (no beak) and antennae (thus, must be an insect, not a bird).
- Body has stripes (black, I think, hard to tell because it never stops flying).
- Loves to suck nectar from flowers.
If it weren't for the wing shape and velocity of wing flapping, I'd say it must be a large moth or butterfly. But I've never seen a moth or butterfly that flys like a hummingbird. It appears to have only two wings, not four like a dragonfly would have. It also has a body shape that is more like a hummingbird than an insect.
Contributed by johnh on 12 September, 2007 - 11:40am |