[Pollinator] Plants Are Cool too! Hawkmoths and evening primrose

Tue Nov 5 07:54:38 PST 2013

Check out this latest edition of Plants Are Cool Too: Desert Blooms and
Marathon Moths
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IPQTs0cfqw

...featuring the awesome and important research being done by Dr.Krissa
Skogan of the Chicago Botanic Garden on hawkmoth pollination in the evening
primrose family.  See how to "milk" fragrance from a flower and how to
collect pollen from a hawkmoth's "tongue."

“Plants Are Cool Too” is the web series acknowledging that animals are
pretty interesting - but plants are cool, too! Created and hosted by Dr.
Chris Martine of Bucknell University, the series is co-sponsored by the
Botanical Society of America.
http://www.youtube.com/user/PlantsAreCoolToo

Four videos have been created so far, three of which are posted online:
http://www.youtube.com/user/PlantsAreCoolToo/videos

Patricia S. De Angelis, Ph.D.
Botanist, Division of Scientific Authority-US Fish & Wildlife
Service-International Affairs
Chair, Medicinal Plant Working Group-Plant Conservation Alliance
4401 N. Fairfax Dr., Suite 110
Arlington, VA  22203
703-358-1708 x1753
FAX: 703-358-2276

Promoting sustainable use and conservation of our native medicinal plants.
<www.nps.gov/plants/medicinal>

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