Here’s an interesting little creature that we spotted in the garden recently… it’s called a snowberry clearwing hummingbird moth. It does resemble a hummingbird in a lot of ways, but apparently it’s just a very flamboyant moth. I had never seen something like this before until my wife pointed it out to me.
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Mmm, awesome, we have those in Bulgaria
First time I saw it I thought “wow, who let a hummingbird out around here?!??”
But it’s weird you have them in the States, they’re supposedly a European thingy 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macroglossum_stellatarum