Bird or Bug?

 Look closely.  Last week we had a visitor to our flowers.  At first, I was so excited--I thought we had a hummingbird in the midst of the vinca!  It fluttered like one, had the long tube-like nose, and behaved much like a hummingbird does (or at least, how I think a hummingbird would act...based on my limited knowledge of hummingbirds).

Alas, it was not an actual hummingbird.  So, what was it??  Scroll down for the answer.

It was a weird thing called a hummingbird MOTH.  (Below is a picture I snagged from Google Images.  Looks pretty similar to our little visitor, huh?)

I had no idea that anything like this even existed!  You're never too old to learn something new, eh?