[ncsc-moths] Re: A sphinx moth found that feeds off orchid which Darwin predicted 150 years ago
- From: "J. Merrill Lynch" <jmerrilllynch@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: ncsc-moths@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2010 13:02:33 -0400
Wow, that is a really cool video. Thanks very much for sharing this. They
didn't mention what species of moth it was, but it appears in the video to
be a sphinx.
Merrill
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
>
>
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