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White-lined sphinx moth

Hyles lineata

Photo by textless
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Description:

This hummingbird moth was feeding on a late thistle in a dry creek bed near Durango, CO.

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Comments (13)
KarenL
Congrats Textless, your moth is featured in the Project Noah blog! http://blog.projectnoah.org/post/56170892604/sphingidae
textless
Thanks Harsha and allencraig... finding that moth made me ridiculously happy, and I was thrilled that some of the pictures turned out.
textless
Thanks for the nice comments! I was really excited to find this moth, and to have it stay around long enough to take a number of pictures. :)

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