I love my hummingbirds, but I may love Hummingbird Moths just about as much. These pint-sized members of the Sphinx Moth family are close to perfect mimics of the remarkable hovering and blurred-wing flying techniques of the hummer clan, and when you see one of these moths at work in the garden or in the wildflower fields, your first impression is always, "That's the smallest hummingbird I've ever seen!" Of course, when you look close, assuming the critter gives you this option, you realize that what you're watching is actually an insect. I found this one working my daughter's patch of Gooseneck Loosestrife flowers today, and I was blessed with being able to use the 85mm Nikkor Micro and a very fast shutter speed—for the record, it was 1/2000th of a second at f/8—to freeze the wings, which can move as fast as 85 beats per second. It's easy to see why this moth belongs to a group known as the "clearwings," and the dark-colored edging, the light colored legs, and the lack of an eyestripe puts in the Hummingbird Clearwing species cubbyhole.