This lil creature was very fuzzy and was hopping flower to flower. At first I thought baby hummingbird but couldn't find any photos that looked like it. Quite the large snoot on it too. Thanks for the help!
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Very cool! Thanks for the help in learning something new today. I found the one here, looks like the hawk is dropped
https://www.fs.usda.gov/wildflowers/pollinators/pollinator-of-the-month/hummingbird_moth.shtml
Ouch! I'm not allowed to see that site.
Forbidden moth knowledge 💀
https://removepaywalls.com/https://www.fs.usda.gov/wildflowers/pollinators/pollinator-of-the-month/hummingbird_moth.shtml
Same HTTP 403 in Italy here. It's deeply sorrowful knowledge websites limit their audience...
The last time I tried opening
yourdictionary.comand it was prohibited, too...Here I would ask whether the author of the article, Beatriz Moisset, would be able to write this article in the first place, if they would be limited in knowledge the same way, too. Or would the website's owner/staff, who configured the restrictions, be able to configure it without any knowledge available for them. Not only that, but these people darken the name of the ineffably magnificent person, Beatriz Moisset, who has already passed away I read...
In other words, this seems nazi, fascistic, narrowminded, and simply disgusting and sorrowful... To not make any request to that domain in the future I also added it my blocklist, and I won't recommend that website to anyone I know.