The Hummingbird Moth! & The Best Plants To Attract Them To Your Garden
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In this video we define and describe the two most common Clearwing Moth species from the United States and Canada.
We explore their favorite plants that the adults prefer as a nectar resource with a two month long study performed at Rutgers Botanical Gardens in East Brunswick, New Jersey.
We include a few handy lists of nectar plants and host plants for their caterpillars that I recommend to add to your garden to attract and support them.
Most of the perennials and annuals in this list are also well known to attract butterflies, and many will attract hummingbirds and other pollinators .
This video covers the profiles of :
Hummingbird Clearwing Moth (Hemaris thysbe) and Snowberry Clearwing (Hemaris diffinis)
Both are native North American moths In the Sphinx Family, and are loosely related to the Old World Hummingbird Hawk-Moths.
Special thank you to : Monica Mc Laughlin of the Rutgers Botanical Gardens for plant profile assistance. information and support . Rutgers Botanical Gardens, located In East Brunswick, New Jersey, USA is open all year to the public and is free of charge.
Thank you to photographers Vitor Azinheira and Joseph Vassilatos for their outstanding Images shown in the video content.
I hope you enjoy the video and thank you for watching !
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Thank you for the video. Last summer I saw this moth in my flower garden and first tought it was a himmingbird. Now I know who was that beacuase of your video. I enjoyed it very much.
Thanks for watching and sharing the comment Natalya! Hopefully you will get some this coming season ✅
Our hummingbird moths like zinnias. They fly around each flower in a perfect circle as they drink the nectar. Once the circle is complete, they move on to the next flower.
The repetitive action is calming to watch. ❤️
Nice Ommelo , I’ll have to keep an eye out for them on Zinnia. I have a bunch of Zowie Wowie Zinnia this year, but haven’t seen them on it yet so far. Thanks for chiming in ! 🌱
I just posted that I see them every day in my zinnias. As if zinnias weren't enough on their own, now I get to see these precious beauties on a daily basis ❤
Your videos are always so clear and the color saturation is perfect. You are quite skilled. I live in the mountains of N. Calif. When I first planted my flower garden, I noticed a very similar hummingbird moth. The major difference is my moth only comes out at night and/or at dusk. Much easier to spot at dusk. I was totally captivated by this critter.
Thank you Iam ! Truth is I spent about two months filming these to make sure I had some quality clips on different plants. You may have seen a Sphinx Morh which are nocturnal, cool creature! I rarely see those here. Thanks for watching!
I think we have a sphinx moth as ours comes out at dusk primarily as well. I got a decent video which I will post.
I randomly stumbled on a clip of a snowberry moth and it was love at first sight. New favourite animal no contest
Fatterhorn they are no doubt such cool little buggers! Thanks for watching!
We had one in Glastonbury, Connecticut, U.S.A. on May 28, 2024.We had never seen one before! Amazing!
We have hummingbirds, however this was so much smaller!
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Cool Teresa ! I usually see them most in the dog days of summer. They are immune to the heat I swear!
Lol😂 you have me interested in flowers 💐 🌸 🌺 for the porch now they do bring enjoyment just like most marbles do always have enjoyed the summer and a beautiful yard of flowers
Heck yea gardening is awesome and it’s good for you and the environment! I hope you have a great season! 🌱
Thanks for this video. I've also seen hummingbird moths on native bergamont/beebalm as well as my mountain mint! 😊
Jess that makes perfect sense ✅ Still waiting to get my first ones in the backyard but it’s going to be any day now🌱
We have these honey creeper moths here in Oahu that forage at night, sucking honey from a Hawaiian Puakinikini tree that blooms at night and another plant shrub or bush is call night blooming jasmine... both leaves a beautiful fragrance that fills the air at night...
Cool Julian ! I’ve seen Honey Creeper birds in Costa Rica but I’ve never heard of the moth, I’ll have to look them up . Thank you ! Jasmine is a terrific plant! 🌱
Around 9:30 pm every night, two hummingbird moths go after my two Jupiter’s beard plants. At first, I thought they were very tiny hummingbirds, but after some research, I’ve learned they’re moths. Very cool. One practically landed on my fingertip. I’m enjoy going out to my front yard, just after dark, and getting an up close look at them while they dance around the plants. They like columbine too.
Very cool He Hunts She Cooks! You might have those Sphinx moths, which are nocturnal. ⚪️
Wonderful, thank you for sharing! My wife and i are totally smitten with the hummingbird moths😊❤
Oh cool HJ ! They are definitely unusual creatures, I hope you get lots of visitors!
I see them everyday in my zinnia garden. ❤
Ahh cool Joellen ! I forgot to sow Zinnias this year !!
Seems like they really like purple. I just saw one for the first time visiting my marigolds
I think you’re right Crystal, I haven’t spotted one yet , but the Butterfly Bush is blooming, so any day now ….😊
I’ve seen one of these hiking , at first I thought it was a hummingbird, and was surprised it was flying towards me (because most hummingbirds are timid) but got a closer look and took off running. It’s the weirdest thing I’ve ever seen!
Yea no doubt an outstanding example of mimicry! Thank you for watching!
Love these guys! Great filming!
Thank you Ray !
Awesome I saw one today for the first time in my life, I didn't know what it was a big bumble bee or baby hummer. Good to know what they like. I hope it comes back for a picture, I'm in west Boston. I just put many new flowers around my garden.
Wow cool Stopwar ! I haven’t seen one yet this year but any day now I’m sure. I have ‘Prince Charming” butterfly bush and they were all over it last year.
@@stephenbahrmarbles I will def have to get me some of that, great video
Thank you, beautiful video & helpful.
Thanks JAK !
Butterfly bush is invasive & outcompetes native host plants that permit butterflies to reproduce. There are also many species of native thistles that are excellent for pollinators.
another great video
Thank you Summer Rose !
Excellent video! I first saw these Hummingbird Moths, in north central Texas, hanging around my Petunias in a group of 5-6. It was the evening and the "leader" let me look at their face very closely. Beautiful creatures! I first called them "Deer Moths" because of their doe-like eyes until I found out later that these may have been Sphinx Moths or Hummingbird Moths
I'm pretty sure it was Hummingbird Moths but I had never seen either before so ?
Hi Joe , I wouldn’t doubt it if you’ve seen both Sphinx and Hummingbird Moths . If they were active at night they were probably Sphinx moths, and day would have likely been Hummingbird . Hummingbird Moths love it when it’s hot and sunny out , they seem to be most active then .
Ours also really love hosta flowers and 4 o'clock flowers too
Ah ok cat, thanks for the info. I haven’t seen too many yet this season.
Very interesting video Stephen ! Good video...
Thank you Donald !
Thanks so much for this video
Thanks for watching RDS ! 🌱
That's good info and these are not to be confused with the clearwing moth family, Sesiidae. 👍
Thank you Featheredfan, yes the diurnal cousin!
First time in my life I ever saw one of these was after I planted a butterfly bush (Miss Molly) and Salvia Red Lips.
Cool Sara I’ve seen them on Hot Lips once in a while. I’m getting a few more butterfly bushes for them this year.
In New York we call them Hawk Moths. I've only seen one once, and that was 50 years ago. I had no idea what it was, and perhaps 10 years ago I saw a TV show on this insect, and yelled "Eureka", finally know what that thing was.
Oh cool Tino thank you. I’m starting to think they are a little more scarce than I originally thought. They seem to be pretty picky about what nectar plants they prefer to go to.
I just saw like 100 of these while going on a walk in my neighborhood. I've never seen these before and was fascinated so I looked up moth that looks like hummingbird sure enough that is there name lol.
Cool story monster ! Do you know what flowers they were going to ? I haven’t seen any yet this year.
@stephenbahrmarbles I had to look it up but believe it's Texas sage. I saw this in Las Vegas in summerlin area that is closer to mountains.
That makes sense. Thank you !
Great video Stephen. Keep up with more in the future.
Thank you Vitor ! I appreciate it
I have them in my garden. They like butterfly bush. I had never seen them til last year.
Awesome Karen ! They definitely love that butterfly bush !
I saw one for the first time in my garden in Maine.
Congrats Cynthia! They should be more visible from now until fall .
Fantastic video,and hat!
Thanks Monica ! And thank you for all the help !
I just saw one in my garden and took a video!
Lucky you ! I’m still waiting, the Butterfly Bush is just about to bloom so any day now!
I became obsessed about 30 years ago while tending to some hollyhocks one of these angels approached me👀
Retha they really are captivating little buggers 😊
@@stephenbahrmarbles nature is so amazing🤗
I have two of them that come right before dark they always hit the vincas and plumbagos
Cool Jason I’ll have to look up those plants. I’m excited to start seeing them , nothing yet so far but hopefully soon!
I had a bunch of them in my garden later in the summer this year. I plan on ripping up the rest of our hideous lawn grass next spring and replacing it with more native plants to expand on the natives I planted last spring from parts of the grass lawn I replaced. We just bought this 1890s house a year ago, and the yard was a disaster. Takes time and lots of money to plant a nice garden.
Last April I even planted dozens of native to PA milkweeds for the now endangered Monarch Butterfly and many of them had monarch caterpillars on them in late summer this year so that was a success. And in the woods last winter from the one acre behind our house I ripped out all of the non native vines, trees etc that I could find. It’s very important for anyone to only plant native plants and rip out non natives and only plant natives available from Audubon Society and other conservancy nurseries in your area.
It’s important to note that “native” plants available at Lowes and Home Depot and other large corporate companies are most likely not native to your area or even North America.
Terrific work Insert ! The Hummingbird Moths will go to the Milkweed for sure, as well as a huge array of pollinators. Try to plant in some Bee Balm, it is also beneficial to our pollinators and the deer avoid it !
I put out rotten fruit with honey and sugar water and had one of these and a couple red admirals eating from it
Cool Michael! I try rotting fruit and get visits from the Red Admirals and a few others like Hackberry Butterfly!
Sphinx moth…have lots due to lots of butterfly bushes
That’s cool! I don’t really see the Sphinx Moths much.
Mine love Plumbago
Ahh thanks for the information CFG!
I questioned myself when I saw this first time, is this an alien planet?
Ahh cool No Fear ! I’m still waiting for my first wave of visitors!
their larvae are the tomato horn worm. One of them will destroy a tomato plant within hours.
Hi Sheepdog , that is a different species, similar looking caterpillars.
Yes !
I was in chanted 🫠
Thanks Rosa !