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Title: Big moth working with bees on moonflowers!
Post by: johnnybigfish on July 12, 2009, 11:27:28 pm

The suns down and the bees are still working the moonflowers! There was a guest too! A humminbird moth!
(http://lh3.ggpht.com/_btJlzM8u72Q/SlqZ5UeD1sI/AAAAAAAAE1E/LBDj4cpVIb4/s800/DSC_0069.JPG) (http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/mS_XBu8h55ZVgoR1v4zgeg?feat=embedwebsite)

helping the bees!
[img width= height=]http://lh4.ggpht.com/_btJlzM8u72Q/SlqaqbwELwI/AAAAAAAAE10/0S489es6riE/s800/DSC_0057.JPG[/img] (http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/fzQoGk7nRRK5QnA-d5mwSg?feat=embedwebsite)

This girl cant even see me!( the story of my life!)
(http://lh3.ggpht.com/_btJlzM8u72Q/SlqbCEJ8p0I/AAAAAAAAE2Q/4R7BTkQ4qJQ/s800/DSC_0054.JPG) (http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/1FDGj5ywzYQSuhpHWX2kbA?feat=embedwebsite)

Well...Time for bed....again!
your friend,
john

Title: Re: Big moth working with bees on moonflowers!
Post by: homer on July 12, 2009, 11:49:18 pm

Gorgeous photography!  As fast as the wings on those moths move... it's amazing to catch it in such clarity!

Title: Re: Big moth working with bees on moonflowers!
Post by: JP on July 13, 2009, 09:08:47 am

Dang Johnny, most excellent pictures, you've become quite the photographer!


...JP

Title: Re: Big moth working with bees on moonflowers!
Post by: Bee Happy on July 13, 2009, 09:52:12 am

nice pics. The bottom one looks like she's wearing gold dust glitter.

Title: Re: Big moth working with bees on moonflowers!
Post by: joker1656 on July 13, 2009, 10:54:54 am

Awesome pics!

Title: Re: Big moth working with bees on moonflowers!
Post by: Scadsobees on July 13, 2009, 11:07:59 am

Sweet, johnny, that's awesome!  I gotta get me a real camera too!!

That looks suspiciously like a tomato hornworm moth, might want to keep an eye on those veggies!!

Rick

Title: Re: Big moth working with bees on moonflowers!
Post by: Natalie on July 13, 2009, 11:51:09 am

I think that is a hummingbird moth. Great pictures Johnny!!

Title: Re: Big moth working with bees on moonflowers!
Post by: Scadsobees on July 13, 2009, 01:31:38 pm

That there's a 5-Spotted Hawkmoth (the moth of the tomato hornworm!  :-P).

Bumblebee moths and hummingbird moths have clear wings.

Title: Re: Big moth working with bees on moonflowers!
Post by: Vibe on July 13, 2009, 01:41:35 pm

Quote from: Scadsobees on July 13, 2009, 11:07:59 am

That looks suspiciously like a tomato hornworm moth, might want to keep an eye on those veggies!!

Rick

Quote from: Natalie on July 13, 2009, 11:51:09 am

I think that is a hummingbird moth. Great pictures Johnny!!

Quote from: Scadsobees on July 13, 2009, 01:31:38 pm

That there's a 5-Spotted Hawkmoth (the moth of the tomato hornworm!  :-P).

I think that all of these are correct
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphingidae
http://www.birds-n-garden.com/hummingbird_moths.html

Or a tobacco hornworm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Manduca_sexta_female_sjh.JPG

Title: Re: Big moth working with bees on moonflowers!
Post by: annette on July 13, 2009, 02:11:49 pm

So strange to see the bees out in the dark.  My girls go to bed early (they are good girls)

Love the photos John and thanks for sharing
Annette

Title: Re: Big moth working with bees on moonflowers!
Post by: BEES4U on July 17, 2009, 12:29:26 pm

Is the flower also known as Jimson Weed.
Great photos
Ernie

Title: Re: Big moth working with bees on moonflowers!
Post by: johnnybigfish on July 17, 2009, 09:30:25 pm

No, but I think it may be in the same family as jimson weed....its a hallucinogenic...Its a moonflower....or angels trumpet....theres another plant just like it but the flower points down.....Its called a devils trumpet...Really! :)

your friend,
john

Title: Re: Big moth working with bees on moonflowers!
Post by: David LaFerney on July 17, 2009, 10:36:26 pm

Quote from: Scadsobees on July 13, 2009, 01:31:38 pm

That there's a 5-Spotted Hawkmoth (the moth of the tomato hornworm!  :-P).

Bumblebee moths and hummingbird moths have clear wings.

AKA a sphinx moth I believe, but yes the adult phase of a hornworm.

Title: Re: Big moth working with bees on moonflowers!
Post by: beegrlAK on July 18, 2009, 09:10:49 pm

Oh my gosh, we only have big mosquitoes!  That is something else.

Title: Re: Big moth working with bees on moonflowers!
Post by: BEES4U on April 23, 2011, 11:14:34 pm

This is Jimson weed Datura stramonium
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=1Q1GGLD_enUS366US376&biw=1259&bih=833&site=search&tbm=isch&aq=f&aqi=g10&oq=&q=jimson%20weed (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=1Q1GGLD_enUS366US376&biw=1259&bih=833&site=search&tbm=isch&aq=f&aqi=g10&oq=&q=jimson%20weed)

Regards,
Ernie
bees4u.com