# What is this weird bug?

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-weird-bug/548478
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [July 29, 2010, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-weird-bug/548478 "2010-07-29T17:22:25Z")
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### Author: ![Arglefraster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3bc359/32.png) [@Arglefraster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arglefraster)
#### Post date: [July 29, 2010, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-weird-bug/548478/1 "2010-07-29T17:22:25Z")

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My husband send me [this picture](http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/4ULqHtjorGbG_6NKIU9uZw?feat=directlink) from his phone. He said there’s several of them flying around in the building he’s doing work in (he’s a plumber).

What the heck is it? It looks like something from a fantasy video game.

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### Author: ![fachverwirrt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/94ad74/32.png) [@fachverwirrt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fachverwirrt)
#### Post date: [July 29, 2010, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-weird-bug/548478/2 "2010-07-29T17:28:50Z")

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Some sort of moth.

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### Author: ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)
#### Post date: [July 29, 2010, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-weird-bug/548478/3 "2010-07-29T17:30:53Z")

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It’s a hawkmoth of some kind. not sure which species.

[http://www.google.co.uk/images?q=hawkmoth](http://www.google.co.uk/images?q=hawkmoth)

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### Author: ![GESancMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gesancman/32/2923_2.png) [@GESancMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GESancMan)
#### Post date: [July 29, 2010, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-weird-bug/548478/4 "2010-07-29T17:33:58Z")

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Maybe it’ll grow up to be one of [these](http://images.uulyrics.com/cover/s/saga/album-images-at-twilight.jpg).

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### Author: ![Arglefraster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3bc359/32.png) [@Arglefraster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arglefraster)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2010, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-weird-bug/548478/5 "2010-07-30T19:52:32Z")

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> [@GESancMan](#):
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> Maybe it’ll grow up to be one of [these](http://images.uulyrics.com/cover/s/saga/album-images-at-twilight.jpg).

That would be awesome. 😃

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### Author: ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2010, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-weird-bug/548478/6 "2010-07-30T20:02:33Z")

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I’ve seen some like this — and mistook them for hummingbirds! Some of those suckers are big.