DO HUMMINGBIRDS LIKE OR VISIT THE BRUGS?
hummingbirds
Hiya Dixie, Several Brug species are pollinated by hummingbirds in their native habitat, and in the Garden many are attracted to all of them but especially the Red species called Sanguinea! (red attracts hummingbirds) Humingbirds are also said to love the sweet nectar from the species Aurea!
There's actually a type Brugmansia with a stange leaf mutation that was named after the Quinde hummingbird!
Best Wishes,
Bruno
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You always add so much to our discussion Bruno! Thanks
Most hummingbird species found in the U.S. do not feed on brugs. In South America there is one hummer species that that brugs are its primary source of nectar. The bill on this particular hummer is longer that most U.S. hummers(5 to 6 inches) and is curved. Hummers visiting brugs in the U.S. are eating insects, not nectar.
Larry
Hiya larry...Shows how much i know, huh? LOL
So no US humming birds are attracted to Brugs nectar? Darn stupid dem hummin berrrrds....dawno wyat dir missun! LOL
Glory
Jun 27, 2003
Hi Larry,
I was just wondering about you.....haven't heard much from you lately.
Bruno . . it is interesting to know that the Quinde brugmansia was named after the hummingbird.
Gloria, have been really busy at work. Still planning a trip your way the end of July. Hope that all is well with you. I've had several of your cuttings to bloom and more will next month. It should be a fantastic fall blooming parade for me. Can't wait. My Rosamond has Y'ed at 2 ft tall. Have some really nice crosses, Callas, but it may be Dec. before I see any flowers, if then, but they will be protected during the winter.
Bruno, not that you do not know much, I did not know that the Quinde was named after a hummer. In Brazil, there are over 90 species of hummers. In the U.S. only 16 and some are vagrant, only crosses the Mexican border occasionally.
Larry
I've never seen a humming bird before....i remember seeing a TV programme a couple of years ago about a lady who had lots of hummingbird feeders hanging all around her porch. she'd sit out there and the hummers would be all around her and she could even feed them from her hand! Wish I could experience that! The closest i've got to seeing a humming bird here is the other day when i saw a Humming bird moth for the first time LOL
They are so much fun to watch. Sometimes I think they are going to run into me while I'm sitting on the deck. Now they are getting so used to us that we can go in and out of the garage and they will only fly a couple of feet away and then back to the feeder that is right by the door. I always hate to see them leave in the fall. We have the Ruby Throats here.
In the Peruvian Andes, I saw the giant hummingbirds. They are the sang feeders, it was sang territory. They were about the size of a robin (our west coast N.A. robin)The wing flapping was thump thump thump. Kind of weird how they would get so huge at 3500 metres above the sea.
Can you post a picture of a West Coast N.A. Robin? Our's our just the little ones you see on christmas cards LOL