Gretchen, <div>Have you talked to the folks at the NY State Museum in  Albany?  They have all the conservation records for the state.  </div><div><br></div><div>Liz<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 1:46 PM, gretchen halpert <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:[log in to unmask]"><a href="/cgi-bin/wa?LOGON=A3%3D1110%26L%3DSCIART-L%26E%3Dquoted-printable%26P%3D6309%26B%3D--0016e6db2af3809f3604ae6982bc%26T%3Dtext%252Fhtml%3B%2520charset%3DISO-8859-1" target="_parent" >[log in to unmask]</a></a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Dear all,<div>I&#39;m looking for insects that visit the swamp azalea (Rhododendron viscosum) in New York. I&#39;ve searched my library and many sites on-line. I&#39;m thinking ruby-throated hummingbirds and Sphinx moths (Hyles lineata) are possibilities, definitely species that fly vs crawl because of the stickiness of the flowers and extended pistil and stamens. Still, I&#39;m looking for more possibilities. Does anyone know specific insect specie visiting these flowers in this area, or any good references? I live in southern central NY (upstate for anyone in the city; downstate for those north of me; southern Fingerlakes to be most specifice; however, as long as the insects live anywhere in NY, they&#39;re acceptable). I do have a list of indigenous moths and butterflies but researching each to the depth of all food sources has been less than efficient.<div>


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