Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: Hummingbird moth, 0 by salvia_lover

salvia_lover wrote:
This poor guy (Daphnis nerii) was at the end of his life. So although it was sad to see, I was able to get a shot of him very close up and very still. Because he was so close to the end though, his wings weren't open fully. But you can definitely see how lovely the colors of his wings are. The limitations of digital photos and then saving to the computer etc have diluted the pink in the wings (in the area that looks like a straight white-ish line from right to left across him in the center portion...it looks beige-ish here, but the bottom section of that area nearest the darg green part is much more pink than this). He is just gorgeous and I felt honoured to be so close to him yet very sad to see such a lovely creature on the verge of death.

-Julie

edited to add the scientific name

This message was edited Sep 26, 2004 5:14 PM