Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: Hummingbird visitor and questions, 1 by hill5422

hill5422 wrote:
Hi juju,

This year I am mostly relying on plants alone. I had one feeder out and the hummers pretty much ignored it in favor of the plants.

I have bee balm, standing cypress, gaillardia, duranta, zinnias, cosmos, hibiscus, salvia, mimosa, trumpet vine, butterfly bush, in addition to some other plants I can't remember right now.

Your hummingbird moth above is a day-flying sphinx moth called the nessus sphinx. I had one visiting my bee balm last week.

http://www.odolep.com/Moths/SPHINGIDAE/amphion_floridensis.h...