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It is so nice to be visited every day in the evening when I am out watering the garden and admiring the corn and pumpkins. Growing in the corner of the garden is a patch of bouncing bet or soapwort and the blossoms are lovely. The little humming bird hawk moth's come zipping about, poking their long proboscis into every flower. I have seen three of them there together and it is great how they manage to slip in through the holes in the fence.
Ours have lovely bright orange on their wings. It is said they can fly up to 50 miles an hour.
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Aug 15, 2007 | 3:29 PM PST
They are amazing little creatures, saw one on my Butterfly Bush last evening as I was out looking for Swallowtail cats. It is a curious little insect. |
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Aug 15, 2007 | 4:35 PM PST
I just love their visits too! Around here we have the beautiful Clearwing Hummingbird Moths. The Hawkmoth is commonly another name for the Tomato/Tobacco worm adults. These Clearwings do enjoy the Saponaria (Bouncing Bet) as well as the white blooming Nicotiana, Petunia, Catmint, Salvia officinalis and 4 O'clocks! |
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Aug 15, 2007 | 5:02 PM PST
This is a good site for finding out which kind of moth you have seen. The clearwing is the one I see though I have a friend that gardens and he kills the tomato hornworm moth. http://www.whatsthatbug.com/clearwing_moth.html |
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