Sort of, Kind of: What is This:

I know this isn't textbook macro, and probably isn't even that good of a shot, but my wife planted these flowers that are supposed to attract Humming Birds. So I ask you, what is this?

You did attract a HummingBird - but the moth variety ...

Explain, please.

BTW, ISO 2000, 300 f2.8, 1.4tc, only able to obtain 500 tv.

Okay, I just checked wikipedia and see what they are. Interesting creature, but not as attractive as regular hummers.

thanks,
mark

Good capture- lovely hummingbird moth - often mistaken for hummingbirds (at least in the UK where we don't have the real thing ).
Brian V.

Good capture.
I think it's a Moro Sphinx, but may be hummingbird moth is the best english version, of this strange bug. I have seen many of them in my garden few years ago, but at that time I didn't have my dslr yet. Poor of me

Ciao,
Laurent.