Look there, up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a moth! It’s a…. hummingbird moth?

by cej9f

Last week NPR posted an excellent article about what can only be the coolest pollinator. Ever.

“like a flip-flop that doubles as a beer bottle opener; an optical illusion; a labradoodle; a frenemy, the hummingbird moth falls into that cryptic category of transformers in life that are more than one thing” – Linton Weeks ” What Exactly is that Birdlike Thing?”

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One comment on “Look there, up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a moth! It’s a…. hummingbird moth?”

  1. Hawk moths in action, and how biologists study them « Nothing in Biology Makes Sense! says:
    28 August 2014 at 11:16

    […] a follow-up to CJ’s post about hummingbird moths—more generally known as hawk moths—let me recommend this episode of […]

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