Please help me identify this flying insect with proboscis

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LadyDreadHead Mount Pleasant, MI Sep 05, 2010

Hi, I photographed this today, 9/5/10, in Mt. Pleasant, MI. I've never seen anything like this. Does anyone know what it is? It is a very large flying insect? with a long proboscis. The body was about 2 1/2 - 3 inches long.

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pennsylvanicus Royersford, PA Sep 05, 2010

Looks like a Hummingbird Clearwing Moth.

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LadyDreadHead Mount Pleasant, MI Sep 06, 2010

Thanks pennsylvanicus!

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melody Benton, KY(Zone 7a) Sep 06, 2010

I believe it is a White Lined Sphinx
http://davesgarden.com/guides/bf/go/77/

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suunto Sinks Grove, WV Sep 07, 2010

Melody is correct - see http://tinyurl.com/2aqko3p for a very similar image of a white-lined sphinx moth, Hyles lineata (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae).

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