I was taking a photograph of the flower, and just as I snapped, this insect flew into the frame. I had thought it was a bumblebee, but after I showed the photo I was informed that it is a moth (Hemaris diffinis) that mimics a bumblebee, both in appearance and behavior. It lingered at the flower for about a second, but my photo caught the tongue extended into the flower.
Of me, not by me. An education on how to come up short on a stair gap then gap the next set to entire body plant. How I didn’t break my neck neither me nor the docs will ever know!
I had a press pass, so I was in a follow car inside the barriers when we came upon this scene. I only had time for one shot before the police chased me away. The magazines didn’t care to run this one.
MTB tour of Canada’s Northwest Territories. We stopped next to a stream for a drink, and heard splashing. This caribou ran up the middle of the creek, with a gaping wound in its neck and a big flap of skin hanging from it.