While making my rounds the other night I caught this moth in the process of laying eggs on an Angel Trumpet bloom. Sorry Mr. Moth, that earned you the kiss of death. The fact that you are laying them on a very special double yellow seedling I have in my watch zone means you have no chance for forgiveness. Caterpillars are my number one pest problem during the summer and almost all of the ones I find munching on my plants come from moths.

Invasion of the plant snatcher...Invasion of the plant snatcher...Invasion of the plant snatcher...

I had been waiting days for this one special Angel Trumpet bud to mature enough so that I could slice it open for pollination.  Once sliced open I realized the wait had been futile, the flower innards had been destroyed.Lately I have been finding a bunch of these nasty creatures munching away inside my Brugmansia buds. They are known as the Winter Moth Inchworm.  They make a small hole to enter the bloom and then start eating.  Unless you happen to spot the small entrance hole, the infested ...

During my recent Bloomapalooza I was overwhelmed with honey bees.  I think the northern bee farmers are already relocating their hives to Florida for the winter.This lone bee is sipping away on a new bloom from a Brugmansia Jamies Monkey Business x Day Dreams seedling.  I think I'm going to have lots of rogue seed pods this spring.  That can be a good thing because I will harvest the pods and donate the seeds to the International Brugmansia & Datura Society (iBrugs.com) so they can give them ...

This one would be saying "I dare you to try and pollinate this Angel Trumpet bloom!" or "come here little moth, I have some sweet nectar for you inside this bloom."Hopefully he's also on the lookout for the caterpillars that are just starting to appear on many of my brugmansia.

For many Brugmansia lovers, having an Angel Trumpet like "Shredded White" pictured below is a real treat.Here's another version of a shredded bloom that is not a treat to have in your garden,It's hard to believe a little worm could do so much damage....and make such a mess!

After chasing this rather plump sphinx moth around for a half hour tonight, I was finally able to snap a photo of it slurping away on a bloom from one of my Brugmansia seedlings.This was not a small bloom so can imagine the size of this gal.  Sphinx moths are also called hummingbird moths because they mimic a hummingbird and are often mistaken for the same.I have several varieties of sphinx moths that frequent my Angel Trumpets.  This particular moth is called a Rustic Sphinx and it is a ...