Friday, July 11, 2008

Gardens and Moths

I was outside by the wildflower garden this evening around 9:30 - it was almost dark - but light enough to see pretty well without lights. The moon, the half that was visible, was out.

So I hear all of this buzzing and it looked sort of like hummingbirds at the daylilies nearby - but it wasn't. It was some kind of hawk moth with a striped body. There seemed to be several. Later there was another kind of smaller darker moth at the same kind of lily.

I looked it up online and it sounds like they like to lay their eggs on cherry trees. There are several of those trees nearby. I'll have to look when it's light out.

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