Keeping the pupae out of the sun, occasionally hydrate it by bathing it in cool water will help. Like Molanic, I often keep mine in the fridge in a Glad container on paper towel and take it out once a month or so to give it a bath. It is essential to keep them somewhat hydrated in order to avoid dessication. When day and night temps are warmer in later spring/early summer, bring them outdoors in a container with air holes and some sticks they can climb onto when they emerge. They have to hang from the sticks for some time to dry and inflate their wings. This is a good time to get photos of them, too. I only get Hemaris diffinus - Snowberry Clearwing, and their favorite food in my yard is my yellow Honeysuckle. I have Japanese purpurea, but have never found them on this. Another excellent host plant to check is Virginia Creeper. Numerous sphinx moths use it as a larval host, like Eumorpha achemon (Achemon sphinx), Eumorpha pandorus (Pandora sphinx), Darapsis myron (Virginia Creeper sphinx), Amphion floridensis (Nessus sphinx), Deidamis inacriptum (Lettered sphinx), Hyles lineata (White-lined sphinx), and Specodina abbottii (Abbott's sphinx), to name a few. I have raised the first 4 named above, and perhaps one day, I'll find a few others. Good luck and have fun! Susan

And please don't forget nectar plants. I enjoy visits of both types of Hummingbird moth most of the summer. I don't have their host plants but they nectar each day on various blooming plants. They especially enjoy Butterfly Bush, Lantana and Verbena bonairiensis here in my area. Usually grown as an annual, the Verbena bonairiensis roots overwinter here and begin to put out new growth very early in the spring, so I have blooms of this plant quite early. All the butterflies, moths and bee's love these little blooms. Mary hummingbird moth feeding on the bloom of Verbena bonairiensis

Nice photo! I've seen them too. Being protected from predators by their resemblance to bumblebees they fly in the daytime, not evenings as other hummingbird moths do. In fact that's how I saw my first one. I was watching bumblebees working over some flowering plants and all of a sudden I saw this one that was slightly different. Honeysuckle is one of the host plants for larvae. Thanks for posting!

Nice shot! We had alot last year, but only saw a few this year... Do you want your photos in with your message? If you do, need a photo hosting site (alot use Photobucket,Tinypic, free) but there are other sites that are free also...For PB, HIghlight the TAG line(middle), Right click COPY...PASTE into your message box here on GW (Will need two windows or tabs open depending what browser used). PREVIEW MESSAGE as usual. and you should see what you want to post before SUBMITTING...Hope I didn't confuse... juanital