Buzzing Around

taken:
day forty three
08.02.2011

Ever see one of these creatures buzzing around? You may have thought it was a hummingbird at first glimpse. But, in fact, it's not. It's a moth! A 'hummingbird clearwing moth'. As well as resembling a hummingbird, they also remind me {a bit} of a shrimp with a fuzzy body and wings. Kinda funny!

I watched this one zip from blossom to blossom on my mother-in-law's pink garden phlox. It moved so fast but didn't seem phased by me and my camera. It was too busy slurping up sweet nectar with is super long straw-like tongue.