Moth pollination at night: how much do they do?

I set up my portable ring camera on a plum branch to test pollination. No bees all day long. But at night I saw moths visiting the flowers. How much of pollination of cherry, apricot, peach, plum, and apple is actually from moths at night?

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I believe recent research has found they are much more important than previously thought.

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Can you post an image of these night-moths?

https://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/pollinators/animals/moths.shtml

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That’s the article I saw!

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Not easy! The video was so bright the flowers and moths all whited out. Only the video showed it was a moth by it flight, shape, snd antennae. A still image would not show much.