Subject: Sphinx Moth
Date: Apr 29 10:07:58 2000
From: Diann MacRae - tvulture at halcyon.com


Hi, Greg

Thanks for posting that great website for moths to Tweeters - everyone
should take a look. I was able to find what we used to call "hummingbird
moths" in New Hampshire, which are Hummingbird Clearwings, Hemaris thysbe,
I have just learned. They used to sip nectar from the flowering milkweeds
in our field and were even somewhat photographable. Interesting insects
and highly watchable.

The site also said that one of the hawkmoths was the tomato horn worm (in a
previous "life").

http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/distr/lepid/moths/mothsusa.htm

Cheers, Diann
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Diann MacRae
Olympic Vulture Study
22622 - 53rd Avenue S.E.
Bothell, WA 98021
mailto: tvulture at halcyon.com
http://www.halcyon.com/tvulture/