I have had moths that resemble hummingbirds around dusk.

It is a member of the sphinx moths, sometimes called hawk moths because of the way they swoop, or hummingbird moths because of the way they hover. If you really want to see them in the evening, plant moonvine and four o'clocks. They particularly love the moonvine and you can see them hovering waiting for the bloom to open at sunset.

Coleen

Thanks for the info, ladies!

Yes thats exactly what they are.I remember running barefoot in my grandmothers yard and them buzzing my head.They loved her white ginger flowers.

Is this what it looked like.

Here is a link that might be useful: {{gwi:1014718}}

THATS IT. THATS THE ONE!

If you have a vegetable garden you don't want to see these flying around. The sphinx moth lays eggs that hatch into tomato hornworms. The hornworms can strip tomato and pepper plants very quickly.

Patrick - Shreveport, La.

Here's another pic.....cool!

http://users.ev1.net/~bige2000/Whitelined_sphinx_moth_1.jpg

That is a cool pic Danika. You need to go look on the butterfly/moth GW site. We put some cool looiking pic's of butterflies an Moths there.

Sweetmama

This one stopped by this afternoon - July 1, 2004 - San Antonio, TX.

Here is a link that might be useful: Click for photo