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- From: nancy szerlag <szerlag@earthlink.net>
- To: gardenwriters-on-gardening <gwl-g@lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [gwl-g] Re: Interesting bugs
- Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 21:32:23 -0500
They fly during the day. Mine were really hot for Phlox Shortwood which
rises to 5 feet plus in my garden. I believe they are in the sphinx moth
family, which I've also found resting on plants. But the hummingbird moth
actively feeds during the day and has a long proboscis (?) that looks
similar to a hummingbird's beak.
Nancy Szerlag
On 1/24/05 9:31 PM, "Carolyn Ulrich" <cultivated@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 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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