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- From: Carolyn Ulrich <cultivated@sbcglobal.net>
- To: gardenwriters-on-gardening <gwl-g@lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [gwl-g] Re: Interesting bugs
- Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 20:31:08 -0600
Are these night-flying critters? Are they also called sphinx moths? I often have them flying around after sunset. I'm not sure if they're the pollinators for my night-blooming primrose (Oenothera _____?) or not. This is the amazing plant that opens right before your eyes around 8:30 every summer's night beginning around mid-June. People out for evening strolls wonder why I'm standing by my front fence staring at a plant. I tell them, they don't believe me, but they stop and wait, just to humor me along. After they see one flower open, they're hooked and stay until that evening's entire crop has unfolded.
The reason I put the question mark by the species name is that, while this plant is a biennial that has come true from seed for 10 or 15 years now, its flowers are much larger than the ones on Oenothera biennis in the descriptions/sketches I've seen. The O.biennis flowers are allegedly about an inch in diameter whereas mine are 3 inches. Right after the flower opens, there's a pleasant fragrance that's surely there to attract the pollinator who'ere it may be. Carolyn Ulrich
On Monday, January 24, 2005, at 08:12 PM, nancy szerlag wrote:
Speaking of interesting bugs, the past two summers I have had hummingbird
moths in my garden. At first glance I miss took them for hummingbirds. It
was a very exciting first for me. Are they common in other parts of the
country/world?
Nancy Szerlag
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[gwl-g] Re: Interesting bugs,
nancy szerlag, 01/24/2005
- RE: [gwl-g] Re: Interesting bugs, Sheri Ann Richerson, 01/24/2005
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Re: [gwl-g] Re: Interesting bugs,
Carolyn Ulrich, 01/24/2005
- Re: [gwl-g] Re: Interesting bugs, nancy szerlag, 01/24/2005
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Re: [gwl-g] Re: Interesting bugs,
Miranda Smith, 01/25/2005
- Re: [gwl-g] Re: Interesting bugs correction, Miranda Smith, 01/25/2005
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Re: [gwl-g] Re: Interesting bugs,
nancy szerlag, 01/25/2005
- Re: [gwl-g] Re: Interesting bugs, Lon Rombough, 01/25/2005
- Re: [gwl-g] Re: Interesting bugs - hummingbird moths, Sandie Parrott, 01/25/2005
- Re: [gwl-g] Re: Interesting bugs, Melanie, 01/31/2005
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