The Christmas Star from Madagascar
Star-shaped waxy-white orchid Giant nocturnal hawk-moth
with a spectacular spur with a long proboscis reaching almost a foot searching for sweet nectar In 1862 Darwin speculated. Darwin was ridiculed for his theory of a pollinator with a straw that long that could reach so deep. Forty years later he was proven right. In the soft tropical night on the Great Red Island the hawk-moth sucks the sweet nectar of the Christmas Star of Madagascar. |