Last night my family called for me to come and see the really small hummingbird in the courtyard.
Yeah, not a hummingbird. It was a Sphinx Moth. How did I know this? A few years back my neighbor gave me a dead moth he found on one of his potted plants. It was a Sphinx Moth. And then I found one in my garden. Again not alive. I placed them in tins and they are resting here–
I tried to get a photo of the one in the garden. Unfortunately, the photos were all very blurry. This is the best one.
I found this great image taken by Raymond Christensen and posted on Butterflies and Moths of North America.
Some Information on Sphinx Moths
United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service
Colorado State University Extension
North American Moth Photographers Group (Gorgeous Photographs)