CrazyBug!

We just spent a great week in southern Tuscany in a rented villa.
I had ordered a new digital slr camera and it was due to arrive at the shop the day we were actually driving down there.
I was cutting it fine...
Miraculously it was waiting for me along with a macro lens at the shop and my holiday was saved.
Once we arrived at the house I very quickly realised there was a strange animal flying round the lavender bushes.
It sounded like a humming bird. It flew like a humming bird. It looked like a tiny humming bird.
In our guide book there was a picture to solve the mystery;
The mysterious creature was a Humming bird hawk moth.
With my new equipment I decided to take a picture of, what the rest of the family quickly named "The Crazy Bug", due to my many unsuccesful attempts and resulting frustration.
It was difficult to get a shot, not because it took any kind of notice of me, but because it was so damn fast.
Before you managed to focus on it and click the shutter it would have moved on to another plant.
Infuriating stuff.
This shot was actually accomplished around 30 minutes before we had to vacate the house on the last day.
Cutting it fine....