The tech in your pocket offers many opportunities. Sometimes it is important to explain that integrated technology goes far beyond sitting and watching something presented on the screen.
I was walking in our yard this morning and I spotted this unusual thing flitting from flower to flower on a potted petunia plant. It sounded and moved like a hummingbird and I first thought it was a baby hummingbird. This made sense to me. I took a few pictures.
After collecting a few images, I looked up hummingbird babies just to check. It did not look exactly like a baby of the hummingbirds we see daily. The list of sources from my search for baby hummingbird included hummingbird moth. Using this link, I learned and confirmed the identity of what I had observed and photographed. The photo in the online article was nearly identical to the image I had just taken,
When I encounter and photograph an unusual animal or insect, I upload the information to my Project Noah site. Project Noah is a citizen science site I have promoted previously. It offers a great resource for learning from personal observations and for offering information that may be of interest to scientists and others interested in nature. My sighting may be somewhat unique as the range map contained in the site I used to identify the moth does not show sightings in Northern Wisconsin.
