Right before my eyes, I saw my hummingbird friend discriminate against a moth. What am I going to do? My friend openly and violently intimidated another species. The hummingbird sat perched on a limb of a tree above my head. She watched casually as one or two bees were getting an early start. Another smaller hummingbird was busily hovering from flower to flower. Then a giant moth came fluttering in to the flowering bush and started to try to feed on some nectar.
Well got my hummingbird friends attention. She swooped down and got right in front of the moth and would dart back and forth blocking the moth’s access to any flower. She looked threatening, chest all pushed out, waiving her long beak out, standing (well flying) her ground. The moth quickly gave up and flew away. The hummingbird went back to her branch and waited until the sun finished rising. She likes to sit there and watch the sunrise before she starts harvesting, that is her thing.
So nature’s discrimination right in front of my eyes. Everyone else was allowed, but not that moth. The moth got excluded right away. Doing a little research, the moth can be destructive to the plant, especially if it lays eggs and hatches caterpillars. Does my hummingbird know this?
Night time pollinators these moths. There are some plants that flower at night just to attract them. Interesting. You learn all sorts of things with a early morning meditation habit.
Guy
