Hummingbird Moth

[Joe Trimarchi]

There have been several of these Hummingbird Moths on a Butterfly Bush that I planted in my yard two years ago. They are very quick and never stay in one place for more than a second or two.

• OM Digital Solutions - OM-1
• M.40-150mm F2.8 + MC-14
• 90.0 mm
• ƒ/4
• 1/4000 sec
• Pattern
• Manual exposure
• ISO 640

 

[Barbie Heid]

There have been several of these Hummingbird Moths on a Butterfly Bush that I planted in my yard two years ago. They are very quick and never stay in one place for more than a second or two.
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[Barbie Heid]

I have never had one visit my yard, ever. But this year I went plant-nuts, so I'm waiting.

 

[Joe Trimarchi]

I hope you get to see one. They are fascinating to watch.

 

[raythentic]

I only saw one ever and ironically it appeared hovering before and sticking its Proboscis in a flower living in a balcony planter. I was visiting a friend back then and if his wife hadnt called to him to witness it we wouldnt even have known it to be there. I recorded it using my smartphone at the time but this was atleast 10 years ago or so and it was far from the most expensive phone at the time. Still have the recording somewhere though, nice to have a look from time to time, hearing myself getting all goofy and surprised by it

Never again saw one like it though.

 

[Joe Trimarchi]

I only saw one ever and ironically it appeared hovering before and sticking its Proboscis in a flower living in a balcony planter. I was visiting a friend back then and if his wife hadnt called to him to witness it we wouldnt even have known it to be there. I recorded it using my smartphone at the time but this was atleast 10 years ago or so and it was far from the most expensive phone at the time. Still have the recording somewhere though, nice to have a look from time to time, hearing myself getting all goofy and surprised by it

Never again saw one like it though.

I live in North Carolina in the USA and these are quite common here although I'm seeing more of them since I planted the Butterfly Bush. These are 2 that I shot yesterday. They have both been heavily cropped and post processed. Thet are a bit noisy but removing any more loses a lot of detail.

• OM Digital Solutions - OM-1
• Olympus M.Zuiko Digital ED 40-150mm f/2.8 Pro
• 150.0 mm
• ƒ/2.79998474098
• 1/1000 sec
• Center-Weighted Average
• Manual exposure
• ISO 1600

• OM Digital Solutions - OM-1
• Olympus M.Zuiko Digital ED 40-150mm f/2.8 Pro
• 150.0 mm
• ƒ/2.79998474098
• 1/1000 sec
• Center-Weighted Average
• Manual exposure
• ISO 1000

 

[raythentic]

Thanks! We have those plants over here as well, called "Vlinder-struik", as 'Vlinder' is the Dutch word for Butterfly and 'struik' is a word readily substituted for Bush. I'll pay some attention to it from now on, would love to capture another!

 

[Barbie Heid]

I've only seen one once, and no, no camera handy. Beautiful shots!

 

[raythentic]

Here's the footage I talked about, shot back in 2015 according to its properties. I removed the original audio to have it replaced with some Michael Buble song, this because my friend and me were making conversation in the background while I was filming and sadly he passed away since so just out of some respect to his surviving familymembers.

It is only a single minute of footage and I'm only into video editing when it suits me, which is never, so there are no fancy fade in/outs here, after a minute everything just abrubtly stops

 

[Joe Trimarchi]

Cute video. Notice how the Moth never really stops/perches like a butterfly does. It just seems to be in perpetual motion.