Initially seeking Nicotiana, Hummingbird Moth arrives in the garden just as the sun was going down.
Hummingbird Moths
Arrival.
extracting energy
Note position of wings, must do that, I'd hazard a guess, to halt forward movement while hovering stationary to extract nectar...
Here's one in a different stand of Nicotiana.
Just behind the 2nd stand of Nicotiana are the last of my lilies, mostly L. speciosum 'Album', with a last bloom of L. speciosum 'Rubrum'. The moths seem to like the lily extraction as much as the Nicotiana...
And then there were two.
Both at same lily bloom.
One zeros in on the Rubrum...
The other supplements with more Nicotiana...
One is stationary, one in flight.
to 'Album' again
another view
top view
and then there was none...
Amazing pictures, truly beautiful!
Wow!! You've taken some truly remarkable photos -- again!
Thanks for sharing them.
How wonderful to see still photos of these beauties. I get a lot of the Tersa Sphinx moths on my plants at night. Lately, they're all about the salvias and the plumbago. I love watching them fly around but it would be nice to get one to hold still so I could take a good look at it.
Melanie
Tonight I was able to get a couple pics of HBM in Nicotiana.
another
one more...
