Fairies 🧚‍♀️ 🧚‍♂️

I'm afraid it's not so shrimple

it's just a hummingbird moth Who's acting like a bird that thinks it's a bee

Sadly they ravage tomatoes and other nightshade while theyre caterpillars so people often kill them with impugnity. Probably contributes to why theyre not commonly seen.

I would love to see a diagram of how its morphology changed through time and evolution, I bet it's wild

That’s a Pokémon.

More cute bugs pls

First time I saw one of these in my garden I thought I was trippin

Sometimes a cutie is just a cutie, defying classification

If these are fairies, then are mantis shrimp like some Lovecraftian monstrosity from the arthropod Unseelie Court?

Because shrimp is bugs

I'm guessing, it's this species: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemaris_thysbe

(Apparently, this species is also referred to as "hummingbird moth": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hummingbird_hawk-moth )

this is the kind of thing i want to see in fantasy/scifi media, everything looks broadly the same until you get closer and realize all the trees are actually heavily derived insects.