Take one Mexican sunflower (Tithonia). Add daylight. Add one praying mantis. Add patience, persistence and perseverance. And you have a recipe for success or failure.
It's Saturday night, July 18--or soon will be. Do you know where your moths are? It so happens that July 18 marks the beginning of National Moth Week, and that event has not gone unnoticed by the Bohart Museum of Entomology.
Boys will be boys! Especially on a Mexican sunflower (Tithonia). It's a favorite of Melissodes and Svastra sunflower bees. The males get downright defensive and aggressive when it comes to protecting their turf and seeking the females of their species.
