Wow, thank you very much Sue. This is a wonderfull bug. They are morbidly facinating. Quite frankly they frighten me, that there are some that carry trypanosomiasis, and crawl up on your face in the night to suck blood, and just that they can stick that beek in to things, although how they manage is a mystery to me they must hold on tight to get the leverage?
How big is this monster? Can you get near them, did it react to you or ignore you, and can these things bite humans (and do they travel well in the post, J/K). They look like they don't move too much but to take a hummingbird moth is quite a feat, even with a butterfly net, so must be pretty agile and with their predetory behaviour I imagine they are pretty tricky to get so close?
Pennsylvania must be a fantastic place to live I went for a walk today to try and collect some specimines to get a shot of, but got nothing other than a harvest spider and a ladybird larvae. Perhaps it is time to move

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tim