The milkweed is blooming and the flowers are drawing in different insects, like the snowberry clearwing, which looks like a hummingbird when they hover as it feeds on the nectar but it really is a moth.
Snowberry Clearwing
Picture of the Day for July 25, 2018
I might have to find a way to make a padded pouch on the lawn mower to carry my camera so I can capture the different creatures I spot during the hours of mowing. A giant swallowtail butterfly was on the swamp milkweed blossoms so I hurried back to the house to grab the camera, but of course it was gone before I got back to the spot. Although a monarch was there instead and as I tried to get some pictures it that butterfly, a hummingbird clearwing moth made a brief appearance as well before heading to other blossoms.
Hummingbird Clearwing Moth
