hawk moth pollination video - found it

[dave b]

You gotta love Google video. Here is the link. Its a 9 minute video. The orchid footage is approx 2 minutes into it.

NATURE "The Best of NATURE -- 25 Years" | Exclusive | PBS - Google Video

Enjoy

[Shadow]

Thanks for sharing!

[ScottMcC]

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.

[Charles]

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.

[Tindomul]

That is soo cool that you found it! Thanks!

[Dorothy]

I couldn't download it the google player for some reason

but when I googled hummingbird moth, a number of videos came up on youtube.com.
Very Cool

[dave b]

Originally Posted by Dorothy

I couldn't download it the google player for some reason

but when I googled hummingbird moth, a number of videos came up on youtube.com.
Very Cool

In case you didnt see the actual orchid pollination video, here's the link to the PBS / Nature video clip.

YouTube - NATURE "The Best of NATURE -- 25 Years" | Exclusive | PBS

Or, search Youtube with...The Best of Nature, 25 Years. Choose the 9 minute video.

[Dorothy]

Thanks Dave

[flhiker]

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

[R Srinivasan]

Originally Posted by dave b

You gotta love Google video. Here is the link. Its a 9 minute video. The orchid footage is approx 2 minutes into it.

Enjoy

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!