Are you familiar with this moth?
Well, not this moth, but this kind of moth?
It’s called a white-lined sphinx moth. Let me tell you about my first run in with this moth (well, not this moth) years and years ago: It was long ago when the hostas were small and I was flushed with the new-home-owner happiness of having our own yard with trees and plants and sunshine and air – *sigh*.
I was out on the patio and saw a darling hummingbird sipping nectar from the blossoms. Wanting to further commune with nature, I got very close to it. I noticed that something was wrong with that adorable tiny bird – it’s widdle beak was broken! It would back away from the flower and it’s beak would drop, so I leaned closer and holy fake-out, that is NOT A HUMMINGBIRD!!!!! GAHHHHHHH!!!!!
I never communed with nature again. You just can’t trust it.