Once again, nature is putting on its spring show and I am getting caught up in dramatic moments before finishing the stories I have begun. WHile my previous post begins with a photo of a bear looking over my back deck, I never did get to finish the story which also includes Carpenter Bees and Dog Violets. Perhaps tomorrow, when I am refreshed. For now, enjoy the Azaleas pictured above. They are growing just outside the bookstore on the FRC campus. When I first walked by this afternoon, without a camera, there were beautiful Hummingbird Moths flitting from flower to flower. When I came back with my camera, they were gone. These large moths look a lot like hummingbirds to the uninitiated. They are also known as Sphinx Moths, a whole family of them. So, I thought I'd just show the flowers and let you imagine the moths. But then I remembered I had some Sphinx moths in my photo archive.
The above photo is a caterpillar of a White-lined Sphinx that I photographed a couple of years ago.
And this is the adult of an Eyed Sphinx, also from two summers ago. I'm going to visit the Azaleas again tomorrow and see if I can get a photo of the moths in action.
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