10th Annual Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest Natural World
Each summer we would wait for the appearance of our favorite garden insects, the sphinx moths. As this hummingbird clearwing pulled away from the flower it was visiting, it's long proboscis would cur

Each summer we would wait for the appearance of our favorite garden insects, the sphinx moths. As this hummingbird clearwing pulled away from the flower it was visiting, it's long proboscis would curl and display the pollen it collected.

Photo Detail
Date Taken: 07.2012
Date Uploaded: 11.2012
Photo Location: Marysville, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Camera: NIKON D800
Copyright: © Don & Esther Phillips