Hummingbird Moth

If you look carefully at the upper left hand edge of the bloom there is a little brown/tan thing with a bright blue sparkle, that's a hummingbird moth. What is a hummingbird moth you ask, well so did I when I first saw one several years back. At first I thought it was some kind of bee or wasp since it had that kind of color and was doing the bee thing. Then I caught a better look and thought perhaps it was a hummingbird but it was much too small. The link I provided above gives a great photograph of it and explains about the three types of hummingbird moths. They are one of the few moths that appear in the daylight. That is the big difference between moths and butterflies, butterflies are daytime creatures and moths are night time. There are a couple of other distinguishing characteristics like their antennae and probiscus for example.