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Bootpathguy Member
Joined: 18 Jun 2015 Posts: 1787 | TRs | Pics Location: United States |
I've heard about them but have never seen one.
I geek out about stuff like this ( like my experience with rubber boas )
It was dusk ( almost dark ) and I got slapped in the face by a large flying something.
Flew a few feet from me over to some flowering plant.
Got a opportunity to see, and watch my first hummingbird hawk moth feed on flowers.
Pretty cool!!! Thought I'd share
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snowmonkey Member
Joined: 23 May 2014 Posts: 87 | TRs | Pics
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Cool! Where did this great experience occur??
Bootpathguy wrote: | hummingbird hawk moth feed |
Ocian in view! O! The joy!
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Ocian in view! O! The joy!
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Bootpathguy Member
Joined: 18 Jun 2015 Posts: 1787 | TRs | Pics Location: United States |
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Asplorin Member
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Sun Jul 31, 2022 6:47 pm
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Actually saw one of those myself this weekend, along the seashore at Ft.Worden. It was having trouble with the ocean breeze, but it was very pretty up to the point a swallow schwacked it.
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Sculpin Member
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Mon Aug 01, 2022 8:15 am
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Many years ago, when I floated the San Juan River in Utah, I found Sacred Datura growing at 4000'. I collected seed and took them home and a couple sprouted. I put the plants out in my yard and they grew like crazy, producing flowers the size of salad plates, opening in the evening and closing the next afternoon. And then one day I was out admiring the beauty and fragrance, and for the first and only time in my life, I saw a hawk moth in Washington State, sipping nectar from a datura flower.
Datura is unavailable in the nursery trade, I presume because the plants are dangerous to handle. My two plants did not survive the winter.
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Malachai Constant Member
Joined: 13 Jan 2002 Posts: 16088 | TRs | Pics Location: Back Again Like A Bad Penny |
Datura contains Scopolamine which has medical uses but can cause serious harm if misused. In Columbia it is called Devils Tongue it has psychoactive properties but also causes zombification if you get the dose wrong. It is not a terribly popular recreational drug but can be used for date rape. It is particularly dangerous when mixed with alcohol. If you read the Don Juan series it sounded awful. There are several species and it commonly grows along roads in the Southwest. In South America there are trees of it.
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Bootpathguy Member
Joined: 18 Jun 2015 Posts: 1787 | TRs | Pics Location: United States |
We had 3 @ our front porch this evening
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Cyclopath Faster than light
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Sat Jul 15, 2023 9:51 pm
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Utah
It was her birthday.
It has a little more detail if you zoom in.
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Gil Member
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Sat Jul 15, 2023 11:17 pm
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adamschneider Member
Joined: 14 Jul 2006 Posts: 93 | TRs | Pics Location: Portland, OR |
I've seen them in Nevada, Colorado, and southern California, but not up here in the PNW yet.
In the Anza-Borrego desert, they're so common that their caterpillars are sometimes responsible for bringing a premature end to the wildflower season.
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Anne Elk BrontosaurusTheorist
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Sun Jul 16, 2023 2:14 pm
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There is an amazing video of the hummingbird hawk moth visiting flowers on Wikipedia. But I also saw that it's native to Eurasia, so if in fact you're seeing it here, it's an invasive species. More likely though, the moths seen by folks in this thread are part of this family of moths, some of which have the same behaviors. Another reference: Moths in Washington.
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nuclear_eggset Member
Joined: 02 Jul 2006 Posts: 2206 | TRs | Pics Location: Eastside |
That is the right side of the cool-creepy mix!
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kbatku Questionable hiker
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Mon Jul 17, 2023 3:57 pm
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There were a lot of them in my youth. They come from tomato hornworms which are gigantic beasts of a caterpillar. You don't see them much because fewer people grow large batches of homegrown tomatoes and if you're growing a small batch you notice them as soon as they appear. Commercial crops spray and kill them. They'll eat your tomato plant down to a stalk in a couple of days. I've actually considered raising them but my wife says "no". I mean NO.
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