{"id":3459,"date":"2014-04-11T12:01:20","date_gmt":"2014-04-11T19:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/?p=3459"},"modified":"2014-04-11T12:01:20","modified_gmt":"2014-04-11T19:01:20","slug":"not-a-hummingbird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/?p=3459","title":{"rendered":"Not a Hummingbird"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night my family called for me to come and see the really small hummingbird in the courtyard.<\/p>\n<p>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\u2013<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class='centered' src=\"\/images\/SphinxMothsTinsIMG_1513.jpg\" alt=\"Sphinx Moths in Tins\" \/><\/p>\n<hr class=\"hrVisible\" \/>\n<p>I tried to get a photo of the one in the garden. Unfortunately, the photos were all very blurry. This is the best one.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class='centered' src=\"\/images\/MothIMG_1009.jpg\" alt=\"Sphinx Moth\" \/><\/p>\n<hr class=\"hrVisible\" \/>\n<p>I found this great image taken by Raymond Christensen and posted on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.butterfliesandmoths.org\/species\/Hyles-lineata\" >Butterflies and Moths of North America<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class='centered' src=\"\/images\/ChristensenSphinxMoth.jpg\" alt=\"Christensen Sphinx Moth Photo\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Some Information on Sphinx Moths<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fs.fed.us\/wildflowers\/pollinators\/pollinator-of-the-month\/hawk_moths.shtml\" >United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ext.colostate.edu\/pubs\/insect\/05517.html\" >Colorado State University Extension<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mothphotographersgroup.msstate.edu\/fast.php?plate=20&#038;sort=h\" >North American Moth Photographers Group <\/a> (Gorgeous Photographs)<\/p>\n<hr class=\"hrVisible\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/?p=3459\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Not a Hummingbird<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,26,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gardens","category-misc-interests","category-observations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3459"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3470,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3459\/revisions\/3470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}