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Hummingbird Clearwing Moth photographed at my community garden yesterday [OC](i.imgur.com)

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Didn’t even know such a thing existed. At first I thought it was a baby hummingbird until I got closer and saw the fur and antennae.

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jrwperformance @lemmy.world
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Hover shrimp.

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Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip
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Lol, I don’t know why but I feel kinda bad for laughing at that, poor cute non-dinosaur birb

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hutchmcnugget@lemmy.world
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Is this an example or convergent evolution or mimicry? Or something else I’m not aware of?

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Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip
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Yes (convergent part), but I would say that it’s more like the bird(s) one is converging to take the classic infect job

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laurel@lemmy.ca
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Holy shit this is amazing. Stunning capture too! What did you use to ID?

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Lowburn@lemmy.worldOP
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Thanks, I used Google Lens to reverse image search and then cross referenced the results with my state’s biodiversity page.

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Hubi@feddit.de
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I love these little guys, they were all over our garden when I was a kid. It’s been a few years since I’ve seen one unfortunately :(

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Alchemy@lemmy.worldM
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Beautiful shot. We get to see them around where I live luckily.

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