Hummingbird moth

Me and my sisters saw this insect the other day, and as you can see it looks like a mix between a humming bird and a moth.

Does anybody know what it's called?

EDIT:

Apparently, it is called a hummingbird hawk moth. You learn something new every day

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[cherylmcleod1]

this is incredible ...been trying to identify this creature for close to 20 years! This visited our garden in Branford, Connecticut of all places.

[dripinwithsinz]

I always see these in new Mexico in the spring

[loranalary]

there's a lot of them in the south and south west of France, nice video, because the last one I saw .. couldn't make a picture of it. :o)

[julytides]

omg i thought that was a hummingbirf

[plang67]

I saw one in Porto Santo Island, Madeira but had never seen anything like it before - I live in Scotland

[TrevorSwanVideos]

its a white lined sphinx moth. they are common.

[n2121966]

I saw one just a couple of days ago, just like this one, in a s mall town in Germany, just on the borders of Switzerland. It was collecting nectar from an azalea. My husband and I marveled at it because we had never seen one before and when I got home, I just had to find out what it was. It is a hummingbird hawk moth.

[Iconoclast444]

@BlueSabb My bad...

[UTU49]

These things clearly like petunias. I saw one yesterday for the first time ever, and it was happily roaming among my mother's petunias.

I am near Vancouver, Canada. Where have the rest of you seen these crazy big bugs?

[BlueSabb]

@Iconoclast444 The tomato hornworm is the larval stage of the Hawk Moth, NOT the HUMMINGBIRD Hawk Moth or Hummingbird Moth.