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Photo of a hummingbird hawk moth feeding on the pink flowers of soapwort. Its wings are moving so fast that they are blurred - greyish-brown forewings, bright orange hindwings. It has a greyish body with a broad, black-and-white 'tail'.

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Photo of a hummingbird hawk moth feeding on the pink flowers of soapwort. Its wings are moving so fast that they are blurred - greyish-brown forewings, bright orange hindwings. It has a greyish body with a broad, black-and-white 'tail'.
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Helen Clayton (helenclayton@mas.to)'s status on Saturday, 19-Jul-2025 06:47:28 JST Helen Clayton

There’s a little family of wrens in the garden so I took my camera out, hoping to get a pic. They’d busied off by the time I got back. But then I heard a low hum…
A hummingbird hawk moth feeding on the soapwort flowers. So fast that even the stills from 4K video are blurred.
#insects #moth

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