Flowers eagerly visited by hawk moths

MacroLuv · Post by **MacroLuv** » Sun Jan 07, 2007 1:08 pm

I was trying to shot the flower and this guy literally flew into my camera.

Camera model Olympus SP-320
Date/time 04.08.2006/17:11:06
Exposure time 1/500 s
F-number f/4.5
ISO 64
Focal length 8 mm

The flower alone.

Camera model Olympus SP-320
Date/time 04.08.2006/17:15:19
Exposure time 1/400 s
F-number f/2.8
ISO 64
Focal length 8 mm

beetleman · Post by **beetleman** » Tue Jan 09, 2007 4:59 am

that is one beautiful flower Nikola. Does that grow wild, or did you plant it?
The first shot is great, I love the way the moth is coming in from the right corner...perfect

MacroLuv · Post by **MacroLuv** » Tue Jan 09, 2007 6:11 am

Doug, I've seen that kind of flowers on cultivated places only. There is a yellow-white-green variant also.

Moebius · Post by **Moebius** » Tue Jan 09, 2007 8:36 am

I have some growing in my garden. The plant is called Lantana. I have this color and also an all yellow version. Get's quite large and can become invasive in the right climate.

Nice pics of it.

Ken Nelson

acerola · Post by **acerola** » Wed Jan 10, 2007 6:41 am

The second picture is very beautiful.

MacroLuv · Post by **MacroLuv** » Tue Jan 16, 2007 5:08 pm

Moebius wrote:I have some growing in my garden. The plant is called Lantana. I have this color and also an all yellow version. Get's quite large and can become invasive in the right climate.

Nice pics of it.

Ken Nelson

Thank you very much for ID Ken!

I was trying to find it myself but without success. You can see the plant at Wikipedia under that name.