>Go to arboretum with my family
>walking through butterfly garden
>see hummingbird
>looks a little weird
>its a hummingbird moth
Found out afterwords. Makes my blood boil lads ngl
>Go to arboretum with my family. >walking through butterfly garden. >see hummingbird. >looks a little weird
That's not how you redtext newbie
give me one reason why we can't introduce hummingbirds in Europe
>they won't have the right plants
we can introduce them
>where will they migrate
In summer to northern/central Europe in winter to southern Europe and the near east/middle east
>muh environment
they would only be competing with butterflies and moths
Haven't you done enough to your ecosystems? holy shit.
ecosystems are fricked anyway, might as well have cool stuff
damn I'm 2 hours away from Genova aquarium, I had no ideas they had them. Last time I went I was a kid 20 years ago
plenty of butterflies to go around anon. Just add a few melliferous plants and a shallow water dish and you'll see a shitton of them
I'm sure you can find a hummingbird garden in Europe
The Genoa Aquarium had them for awhile
>they would only be competing with butterflies and moths
And then they would go extinct, we already barely have butterflies, leave them alone
mmm pink thingies
That's a Verbenaceae, probably a Glandularia sp. but I'm not very sure
you should have posted a photo instead of chud, these things are wild
Cute
neat
>hummingbird moth
That's really cool.
He thicc
YWNBARH
I get these in my garden sometimes.
What happens in those situations? How do you interact with a hummingbird moth?
Not that anon but I was coming into work one morning and one of these guys was buzzing a few inches in front of my face and I was watching it when all of a sidden a bat or bird dive bombed in and snatched it. Pretty wild it was close enough that I felt the wind coming off its wings.
God damn, this case of convergent evolution is really incredible
birdirfly
I sometimes see these lads here in central Europe. Probably the most exotic looking insects that we have aside from the rare mantis.
ur in Europe?