Re: shrub needed
- To: perennials@mallorn.com
- Subject: Re: shrub needed
- From: M* L* <m*@micron.net>
- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 07:34:13 -0600
At 09:44 AM 7/24/98 EDT, you wrote:
>In a message dated 7/24/98 7:12:05 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
>saxmanbc@bellsouth.net writes:
>
><< It hovers like a hummingbird, but is a bug. >>
>This is a moth, I think, called the hummingbird moth. Don't know the
>scientific name. But they're very interesting to see, aren't they? they do
>look like a bumblebee with an elongated back end. And they behave with
>flowers just like bumblebees do. As for the honeybees, I would think you
>should have them all over. Unfortunately the honeybee population has been
>decimated by disease and they are becoming a rare sight. I seem to be seeing
>a few more this year than last, but we're talking about seeing 3 or 4 instead
>of 1 or 2 per day.
>
>Bill Lee
>
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The "hummingbird moth" is more correctly a "sphinx moth," some of which are
parents to the dread tomato hornworm. Margaret
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