{"id":419,"date":"2006-09-04T22:01:50","date_gmt":"2006-09-05T05:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/x.jimanddoni.com\/?p=419"},"modified":"2006-09-04T22:04:42","modified_gmt":"2006-09-05T05:04:42","slug":"ever-seen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/?p=419","title":{"rendered":"Ever Seen&#8230;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Hummingbird moth?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/Sep\/Hum1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/Sep\/Hum2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/Sep\/Hum3.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The other day Jim and Tanner insisted that our flowers in our front yard were covered with baby hummingbirds.  When I first saw them I thought they were adorable and they did appear to be baby hummingbirds.  The next day they appeared again and I took a closer look.   The body didn&#8217;t look quite birdish, the beak looked kinda curved, the wings looked layered differently&#8230;.hmmmm&#8230;.looks kinda moth like really.  So on a whim, Jim and I googled Hummingbird moth&#8217;s and sure enough&#8230;that is what they are.  I think I have a favorite bug now! \ud83d\ude42  This is the only insect that I think is cute (okay &#8211; and ladybugs oh and lightening bugs too but I have only seen those once in Missouri).<\/p>\n<p>These little creatures are pretty big for a moth species I think.  Most of them were probably had body sizes that were over an inch.  The pictures make them look very moth like but when you see them in person they do give more of a hummingbird appearance.  Their wings beat so fast while hovering over the flowers that it&#8217;s tough to see their moth like qualities.  Also because they are moving so quick it&#8217;s hard to see that the beak curves.  <\/p>\n<p>Apparently they often appear in the evening in late August and they aren&#8217;t afraid of people.  I tried to get pictures tonight and they appeared right at 7:00 like the last three nights.  Taking pictures of these little creatures takes more skills than I posses though so the above three were the best I could do.  They were too darn fast.  Kinda like taking pictures of Noah and Graham this week&#8230;but that is another story:).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Hummingbird moth? The other day Jim and Tanner insisted that our flowers in our front yard were covered with baby hummingbirds. When I first saw them I thought they were adorable and they did appear to be baby hummingbirds. The next day they appeared again and I took a closer look. The body didn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mamas-diaries"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}