That was really cool! Dwayne ************* Dwayne Martin Hickory, NC redxbill@xxxxxxxxx http://www.naturalsciences.org/nchummers/ Catawba County Park Ranger Riverbend Park - Conover, NC jdmartin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.catawbacountync.gov/depts/parks/ http://www.weatherlink.com/user/riverbendpark http://www.ncbirdingtrail.org/TrailGuide/Guide_CatawbaValley.pdf On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 12:51 PM, Jules Fraytet <jlfray@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Close to 150 years ago Charles Darwin predicted a moth must exist which > could feed from the extra long tube that hold the nectar in this Comet > orchid species and a biologist visiting Madagascar filmed it. The second > video (a teaser!) from the PBS series Nature does not show the moth, but the > first link from YouTube does. Extraordinary long proboscis. > > It shows up about 3 minutes into the video. > > The comments section on the Nature link goes into the details of the both > species names > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMVN1EWxfAU > > http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/episodes/deep-jungle-new-frontiers/video-darwins-moth/1374/ > > Jules Fraytet > Charlotte, NC > >
