Identity help please?

[grannyjanny]

Yesterday I looked through the window & there was a strange insect on the flowers. OH tried to get a picture but it was so fast. At first I thought it was a moth, its wings were going so fast. Its back end looked like a bee, at the front it had what looked like a set of 3 anteni & it was pushing the central one into the flowers of perovski & plumbgo.
We would really love to know what it was.

[grannyjanny]

[peanuts]

How about a hummingbird hawk moth?  Google that and have a look at Images.

[Unwashed]

Like Peanuts, it does sound like the hummingbird hawk moth.

[Digeroo]

Wow who managed to take that pic? 

[Unwashed]

Wow who managed to take that pic?

My apologies, I should have attributed the image:  It was taken by Wikipedia user IronChris, was taken July 7th, 2006. Rhône, France.  It is used under the following licence:  Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License.  See here.

[grannyjanny]

That's the one . Thank you.

[Unwashed]

They are amazing aren't they.

[grannyjanny]

They certainly are amazing. It's the first time we've both seen one.

[Mikeakabigman]

I would  bet that we'll see a lot more of them this year, if the weather stays settled.