2024 First-Class Forever Stamp,Ruby-throated Hummingbird and Spotted Touch Me Not, Gardern Delights
# 5846 - 2024 First-Class Forever Stamp - Ruby-throated Hummingbird and Spotted Touch Me Not, Gardern Delights
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US #5846
2024 Ruby-throated Hummingbird & Spotted Touch-me-not – Garden Delights
• Continues the tradition of flowers on US definitive stamps
Stamp Category: Definitive
Set: Garden Delights
Value: 68¢ First Class Mail Rate (Forever)
First Day of Issue: March 16, 2024
First Day City: Strongsville, Ohio
Quantity Issued: 525,000,000
Printed by: Ashton Potter (USA) Ltd.
Printing Method: Offset
Format: Double-sided Booklets of 20
Watermark: Nonphosphored Type III, Block Tag Applied
Why the stamp was issued: To celebrate the beauty of garden flowers and hummingbirds.
About the stamp design: Pictures a photograph of a female ruby-throated hummingbirds next to a spotted touch-me-not. Existing photograph by wildlife photographer Ben King.
First Day City: There was no official First Day of Issue Ceremony for these stamps, but the postmark was from Strongsville, Ohio.
About the Garden Delights set: Includes four stamps picturing photographs of female ruby-throated hummingbirds next to different garden flowers: sunflower, spotted touch-me-not, zinnia, and sugar flowers.
History the stamp represents: Hummingbirds are delightful birds with many unique characteristics. They are the smallest species of bird, weighing just 0.1 to 0.2 ounces and measuring 2.8-3.5 inches long. Not only that, but they don’t have knees and they can fly backward!
These impressive birds can fly straight and fast, but have enough control to immediately stop, hover, or zigzag if needed. Hummingbirds wings can beat up to 70 times per second. In comparison, an American robin can only flap its wings 23 times per second.
All hummingbirds have extremely fast metabolisms and need to eat all day just to stay alive. Using their long, forked tongues to reach into tube shaped flowers or feeders, they pull the sweet nectar back into their mouths. They can also nab small insects right out of the air or spiders out of their webs.
Hummingbirds will use spider silk on the outside of their nests to help them stretch as their young grow. The nests start out small since the female only lays an average of two eggs per clutch. The eggs are the size of a coffee bean.
Even though the hummingbird is small, it plays an important role in pollination. Perhaps this is why the ruby-throated hummingbird was featured on all four Garden Delights stamps in 2024.
US #5846
2024 Ruby-throated Hummingbird & Spotted Touch-me-not – Garden Delights
• Continues the tradition of flowers on US definitive stamps
Stamp Category: Definitive
Set: Garden Delights
Value: 68¢ First Class Mail Rate (Forever)
First Day of Issue: March 16, 2024
First Day City: Strongsville, Ohio
Quantity Issued: 525,000,000
Printed by: Ashton Potter (USA) Ltd.
Printing Method: Offset
Format: Double-sided Booklets of 20
Watermark: Nonphosphored Type III, Block Tag Applied
Why the stamp was issued: To celebrate the beauty of garden flowers and hummingbirds.
About the stamp design: Pictures a photograph of a female ruby-throated hummingbirds next to a spotted touch-me-not. Existing photograph by wildlife photographer Ben King.
First Day City: There was no official First Day of Issue Ceremony for these stamps, but the postmark was from Strongsville, Ohio.
About the Garden Delights set: Includes four stamps picturing photographs of female ruby-throated hummingbirds next to different garden flowers: sunflower, spotted touch-me-not, zinnia, and sugar flowers.
History the stamp represents: Hummingbirds are delightful birds with many unique characteristics. They are the smallest species of bird, weighing just 0.1 to 0.2 ounces and measuring 2.8-3.5 inches long. Not only that, but they don’t have knees and they can fly backward!
These impressive birds can fly straight and fast, but have enough control to immediately stop, hover, or zigzag if needed. Hummingbirds wings can beat up to 70 times per second. In comparison, an American robin can only flap its wings 23 times per second.
All hummingbirds have extremely fast metabolisms and need to eat all day just to stay alive. Using their long, forked tongues to reach into tube shaped flowers or feeders, they pull the sweet nectar back into their mouths. They can also nab small insects right out of the air or spiders out of their webs.
Hummingbirds will use spider silk on the outside of their nests to help them stretch as their young grow. The nests start out small since the female only lays an average of two eggs per clutch. The eggs are the size of a coffee bean.
Even though the hummingbird is small, it plays an important role in pollination. Perhaps this is why the ruby-throated hummingbird was featured on all four Garden Delights stamps in 2024.