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This was the most fabulous display of chuparosa flowers on my hike today. The pix do not even come close to showing how pretty it was!

For a list of all the native species I saw in bloom in Borrego Palm Canyon on 1 March 2021, with an estimate of the number of plants I saw in bloom for each species, see:

http://tchester.org/bd/blooms/210301_borrego_palm_canyon_blooms.html

Night walk about 4-5 Moths flying around Wright's Desert Honeysuckle. Attempt to photograph them while flying. Look to be feeding on nectar.

Flowering plant:
Wright's Desert Honeysuckle -
AKA: Flame acanthus, Hummingbird bush, Wright's desert honeysuckle, Wright acanthus, Mexican flame, Wright's Mexican flame
(Anisacanthus quadrifidus ) observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/15410366.

At Prospect Forest - walk thru . Recording moth at Wright's Desert Honeysuckle - Anisacanthus quadrifidus also observed on https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/15410366. Moth fly away when I turn on my head lamp. So photos taken with no head lamp and camera taking a "shot in the dark" Try to catch moth getting nectar from flower.

Nectar plant aka - Flame Acanthus

White-striped Longtail

Chioides albofasciatus

or

Chiodes catillus (depending upon the source you refer to)
feeding on Shrimp Plant
Justicia brandegeana
Austin, Travis Co.,
Texas
13 October 2007