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I liked the cheetah chomping the gazelle just as much.
the proboscis on that moth is quite incredible. I've always been fascinated by the long nectaries on some angraecums, and now I see why it's the way it is. very interesting.
That is good.
I remember seeing a bee work a flower here in Fl on the side of a road in Polk County. I have no ideas what the flower was, but it grew on a vine and looked like a phal type flower. I don't think it was an orchid.
The flower responded to the bee's work by mechanically shifting itself and reaching out to deposit pollen on the bee's back. It literally looked like a mechanical device. The bee could not avoid this and went to the next flower where it began all over again. My wife and I sat for about forty minutes watching this. Amazing.
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Dave that was AWESOME . Thanks so much. I have a huge passion for the Ghost Orchid and did not know that they had a video of the moth. After watching the video and pausing on the flower I don't think it is the ghost orchid but the same moth also called the giant Sphinx's moth. Very cool
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Last edited by flhiker : 06-08-2007 at 01:39 PM.
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That was Angraecum sesquipedilum and the famous moth of whose existence was rightly guessed by Charles Darwin due the extraordinary length of the orchid"s lip-spur that was in excess of 10 inches!
hawk moth pollination video - found it
. Thanks so much. I have a huge passion for the Ghost Orchid and did not know that they had a video of the moth. 
After watching the video and pausing on the flower I don't think it is the ghost orchid but the same moth also called the giant Sphinx's moth. Very cool
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