Plants are Cool, Too! Desert Blooms and Marathon Moths

Publication Date

10-2013

Document Type

Film

Description

Giant hawk moths fly for miles each night in search of flower nectar -- and are thus critically important as pollinators of desert wildflowers. Dr. Chris Martine joins Krissa Skogen (Chicago Botanic Garden) in New Mexico's White Sands National Monument and finds plant romance happening by the light of the full moon.

Department

Biology

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