This creature was hovering around our impatiens last year. It was about 2 - 2 1/2 inches long. No one knows what it is. Can anyone identify this creature? Thanks.
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It’s a hawk moth, I’m guessing.
not a hummingbird, eh, colibri?
Naw, it’s a centaur.
Going with Colibri’s guess, did it look like this? (theretra oldenlandiae, the Impatiens Hawkmoth)
2 1/2 inches long is rather large even for a hawkmoth (otherwise I’d have suggested the hummingbird hawkmoth), perhaps some kind of dragonfly?