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CREATURE FEATURE
If they're working a flower, watch
them stick their tongue in and out,
you can pretty well convince
yourself it's not a real hummingbird.
The larval stage of the hummingbird moth life
cycle lasts about three weeks.
body and can reach the base of a chosen flower.
" A typical pollinator bee has a very short tongue, " says
Matthews. " So unless it can crawl down the tube, it can't
get at the nectar. "
Unlike most of their cousins, hummingbird moths are
seldom active at night. They also tend to return to the
same plants, day after day, at about the same time. For
example, says Matthews, " They learned yesterday at 10
[a.m.] there's some nice salvia over at Mr. Jones' garden,
and at 2 [p.m.] they discovered a patch of bee balm in Mr.
Smith's garden across the street. So the next day at the
same hours, [they'll] be in the same general area, searching
for those nectar plants. "
Hummingbird moths live only six weeks at most,
compared to real hummingbirds, which can survive for
more than five years. In the Appalachian states, two generations
emerge from cocoons each summer, the first in
June, the second in August or September.
" It's pretty remarkable to have an insect and a bird,
two totally different animal groups, come to look so similar
and behave so similar to each other, " Matthews says.
" It's almost a classic case of convergent evolution with
the hovering ability and the ability to fly backwards and
forwards. There aren't very many insects that can do that,
that are that agile. And there aren't very many birds that
are that agile either. "
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