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Orange flying fat bug (Hummingbird clearwing moth)

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Hummingbird clearwing moth
by: Moni

Linda
The insect in your photo is a clearwing moth, probably the Hummingbird clearwing moth. They fly at dusk and sometimes during the day and do look like a large bumble bee or small hummingbird.
Adults feed on nectar from tubular flowers. Caterpillars of this moth feed on hawthorn, honeysuckle, snowberry, or viburnum plants.
These are seen thru out North America.
A moth
by: Anonymous

I too have seen something like this and from what I can discover it is a type of sphinx moth (maybe hummingbird moth or bumblebee moth) - it likes the same plants as bees and hummingbirds - buddleia and monarda especially.

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