I've seen several White-lined Sphinx Moths this spring, one on a bald, one on
a prairie and the most recent one was hanging on a Jasmine plant I purchased at
Lowe's in Lacey, Washington.

I've never seen one before and I've been doing lepidoptera surveys for several
years now so I would support the idea that they're unusually abundant this year.

Kelly McAllister
Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife
Olympia, Washington
Reply to: mcallkrm at dfw.wa.gov

On Mon, 10 May 2004, Mike Patterson wrote:

> Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 06:27:54 -0700
> From: Mike Patterson <celata at pacifier.com>
> To: Tweeters <tweeters at u.washington.edu>, esterlys at tds.net
> Subject: Re: Hummingbird-like Moth! ?
>
> There is a group of moths called sphinx moths which are often
> mistaken for hummingbirds. There's even one called a hummingbird
> moth.
>
> The one you've descriped sounds like White-lined Sphinx Moth
> which is turning up at higher than average frequencies this
> year. See:
> http://www.birds-n-garden.com/white-lined_sphinx_moth.html
>
> --
> Mike Patterson
> Astoria, OR
> celata at pacifier.com
>
> Half-a-bee, philosophically must ipso-facto half not-be.
> But half the bee, has got to bee Vis-a-vis its entity...
> d'you see?
> But can a bee be said to be or not to be an entire bee
> When half the bee is not a bee due to some ancient injury?
> -Monty Python
>
> http://www.pacifier.com/~mpatters/bird/bird.html
>