The Hummingbird Moth! & The Best Plants To Attract Them To Your Garden

It’s the Magical Hummingbird Moths!
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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