{"id":8002,"date":"2013-06-05T08:45:02","date_gmt":"2013-06-05T15:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=8002"},"modified":"2013-06-05T17:35:27","modified_gmt":"2013-06-06T00:35:27","slug":"hummingbird-moth-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=8002","title":{"rendered":"Hummingbird moth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding: 2px 2px 4px 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: -20px; margin-left: 8px; width: 370px; float: right; clear: left; color: #555555; background-color: #eeeeee; border: #dddddd 2px solid;\"><strong>Name calling<\/strong>\u00a0This particular species appears to be <em>Hemaris thetis<\/em>. Historically it went by the names <em>H. senta<\/em> and <em>H. diffinis<\/em>. It has had the common names of Rocky Mountain Clearwing, Snowberry Clearwing, and California Clearwing. As a group (genus), such moths are called either Clearwing Moths or Hummingbird Moths.<\/p>\n<p>One of the oddest sights to be found in one&#8217;s yard is that of a hummingbird moth. It looks like a baby hummingbird as it extracts nectar while hovering next to a flower. But, it is a moth, is active during the day, and has clear wings.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, I saw it on\u00a0<a title=\"Hummingbird Moth\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=5210\">dandelions<\/a>.\u00a0This May, I saw it on three occasions, but each time it was gone in an instant.<\/p>\n<p>Two days ago, the moth appeared as a blurry apparition flying past the <a title=\"Butterfly love\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=7982\">mating butterflies<\/a>\u00a0that were occupying my attention. This is a good picture of neither moth nor butterflies, but it set the stage to do better with each.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8004\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/butterflies_moth130603s.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I located the moth again as it was sipping nectar on some other\u00a0lilacs. It was soon gone, but I had its picture.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8003\" style=\"font-size: 16px;\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"hummingbirdmoth130603s\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/hummingbirdmoth130603s.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A second view.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8022\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/hummingbirdmoth130603bs.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Name calling\u00a0This particular species appears to be Hemaris thetis. Historically it went by the names H. senta and H. diffinis. It has had the common names of Rocky Mountain Clearwing, Snowberry Clearwing, and California Clearwing. As a group (genus), &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=8002\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8002"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8013,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8002\/revisions\/8013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}