Outside with OleReynard and friends

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Big nature fan here, have spent most of my life in the outdoors.
Had my first boat at age of 14, so now we have a teenager with a boat and a shotgun a the fishing poles I needed and a best bud who enjoyed the same.
It’s how we stayed out of trouble.

Thru my years of tramping thru the woods and water there was always an agenda.
Now as I’ve gotten older, I’m enjoying the roses and God’s smaller creatures
Take for example this Hummingbird moth flitting thru my Hostas

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This is the Hyles Lineata also known as the white tailed sphinx.
Erroneously referred to as Hummingbird Moth because of its bird like size and structure.

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Taken with my Droid phone, I think my next purchase is gonna be a nice camera.

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This next beauty is North Americas largest native moth also know as a Silk Moth.
It is Hyalophora cecropia
The Cecropia Moth
Found this baby on my soffit above my deck. Walked right underneath it and never noticed it till I let the dogs back in.

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It was a good 5" from tip of wing to tip of wing and probably on the 4" side long.
How beautiful

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Those Sphinx months are great. I don’t see them that often but really cool looking.

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:thumbsup: Saw one of these late at night working some agapanthus under LED streetlight at my moms & thought WTF?! Hummingbird?! & got closer to see it was a moth. :slight_smile:

:evergreen_tree:

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The sphinx moth is a realy neat one, there the source of the giant hornworm Caterpillars , never had them eat weed but they love to tomatoes

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