Super Shrimp-humming-bird-butterfly-bee ThiNG!?

Right,  so with my cold still causing me sleepless nights with a dry itchy cough, I thought it was high time to visit the friendly nearby doctor again to try and get my body back into its near flawless normal condition.  Upon arriving at the doctor's office I walked over to admire the nice flowers they have outside.  I hear a large buzzing sound and my heart starts pounding as it sounds as if an Osuzmebachi might be approaching (sparrow hornet).  The sparrow hornet is called this because it is about the size of a small bird and is armed with a sting that can seriously mess you up, or occasionaly KILL you. 

I was relieved to see it was just an exteremely large bumble bee...er now wait, humming-bird, no....um SHRIMP!?  What!?  I still have NO idea what the heck this thing is, and it has baffled most of my Japanese friends and co-workers as well.  All I know is that it has the body of a shrimp....legs, antennae, and flaired TAIL,  but it has the fuzzy coloring of a bumble bee, and the long tubular mouth of a butterfly, and the ability to flap its wings at a such a high rate of speed that it can hover just like a humming bird.   I watched it close up for a while so please don't try telling me that it is clearly a humming bird, and NO, I did not tape wings on a shrimp, paint him like a bee, and toss him up in the air so I could take the picture!!  If you read this before I get home to upload the pictures please check back.  Due to my experiences with insects here, I am quite sure Mothra is a product of Kyushu. 

And in later news, a rather strong typhoon has collided with a ridge of high pressure and is now taking a strange turn southwest and is likely to hit near here sometime on Sunday.  The real kicker with this storm is that it is moving at about 7mph....WALKING speed.  So if/where/when it does make landfall, it will pound wherever it hits for quite a long time.  So far most typhoons that have heades this way have missed making direct hits, let's see where #10 goes!