Garden Experiments
For the love of gardening and wildlife habitat
There is one pollinator in your garden that might surprise you. It flies and moves just like a hummingbird, but it’s not a bird. It’s an insect – a hummingbird moth. There are four hummingbird moth species found in North America, but you are most likely to see the snowberry clearwing or the hummingbird clearwing. These are common throughout …
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Have you ever heard of mothing? Really, it's a thing. If you are familiar with birding, mothing is quite similar, though apparently a lot easier. With birding, you have to go out and seek the birds but with mothing, well, you turn on a light at night and wait for the moths to come to you. There are some absolutely stunning moths out there. …
Continue Reading about The Stunning Beauty of a Moth – Moths from My Backyard
