Moths are aliens in their looks and vast diversity. My backyard favorite is hummingbird hawk-moth.
We get the odd Hercules moth in our backyard. Doesn't look anything like a bird close up, but it's so massive that when they get stuck in the house your first thought is that it's a bird or bat.
Another cool thing we get is jumping spiders that imitate ants so they can hunt them - both green ants (an endemic weaver ant we get here) and another large metallic silver ant species I don't know a lot about. The spiders share the colouring of each species and walk backwards amongst them - their walking style changes and the abdomen looks like the head of the ant. They're rare, I've only observed them a couple of times over the years here, but it's wild to watch them do their thing.
If you find hornworms eating your tomatoes you may be tempted to squash them. Instead of doing that you can remove them and put them to work on any other plant in the Solanacea family like peppers, potatoes, eggplants, or better yet put them on some jimsonweed, or one of the other weeds in the nightshade (Solanacea) family or some of the nettles.
I don't mind sacrificing any of it as long as it isn't food for grasshoppers. Screw those guys.
When you are trying to garden at the same time with grasshoppers and you have a drought, they will eat everything that has any hint of moisture.
They girdled one young apple tree, killing it as it was in a growth spurt. The only part alive now are the water sprouts from the root graft and I'm leaving that alive so they can chew on something.
They ate every type of vegetation that I have out here - vegetable plants, fruit tree leaves and bark, nut tree leaves and bark, my olive trees, native wildflowers including salvia, sunflowers, lantana, etc. They even ate the tops out of my walking onions so that the only thing left green and relatively unscathed were three pomegranate bushes that took damage but weren't stripped.
There were so many grasshoppers of several varieties that dozens would fly up at every step - literally a couple dozen per sq meter. I could swing a baseball bat and be guaranteed to hit at least one per swing. It was ridiculous.
The area around my place is being slash-and-burned for a new subdivision. They literally strip the trees, scrape the topsoil to the limestone caprock, scrape the limestone caprock down several feet, haul in topsoil and road base and build streets into the subdivisions where the soil is now deep enough to plant a tree without hitting a rock as long as you don't get ambitious and dig more than three feet down.
As a result, all the flora and fauna and a broad cornucopia of living things show up in my yard since it is still largely untouched and covered by native oaks, elms, hackberries, toothache trees, and a single mesquite that I was glad to see sprout about 25 years ago. I have returned my place to native grasses and wildflowers, clearing a lot of really noxious weeds in the process. All the ordinary things are being squeezed onto the remaining undeveloped land here so I get a bumper crop of grasshoppers. That isn't what I was hoping for but it is what I have ended up with lately.
It was cruising around at dusk feeding on nectar.