[birdky] Re: No bird sighting. Caterpillar ID.
- From: Charles Crawford <cr4d@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Mary Yandell <mtwy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, BIRDKY <birdky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 12:50:29 -0500
Today I drove along the same road that I found the caterpillar on last week.
I counted 6 of them crossing road today.
All like the one I sent everyone.
They are coming from a wetland area.
Charlie
Henderson, Co.
On Sep 11, 2012, at 12:19 PM, Mary Yandell wrote:
> Charlie,
>
> We have a great caterpillar book, Caterpillars of Eastern North America
> (Princeton Field Guide) by David L. Wagner. In it there are two different
> photos of the Banded Sphinx hornworm that are VERY different from one
> another! One of the photos is similar to the link you sent. Seems they like
> to eat evening primrose and false loosestrife. Neat find!
>
> Mary Yandell
> Louisville
> On Sep 9, 2012, at 5:20 PM, Charles Crawford wrote:
>
>> Thank you everyone who wanted to see and wanted to try to ID the caterpillar.
>>
>> I submitted it to bugguide.net.
>>
>> The response I got was:
>>
>> Classification
>> Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
>> Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
>> Class Insecta (Insects)
>> Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)
>> No Taxon (Moths)
>> Superfamily Bombycoidea
>> Family Sphingidae (Sphinx Moths)
>> Subfamily Macroglossinae
>> Tribe Macroglossini
>> Genus Eumorpha
>> Species fasciatus (Banded Sphinx - Hodges#7865)
>>
>>
>> I have searched under the criteria Banded Sphinx on in the internet and
>> really have not been able
>> to find a picture that is like mine. But, apparently it is quite variable in
>> appearance.
>> When I searched for Eumorpha fasciatus caterpillar pictures I got several
>> that are close.
>>
>> See: http://www.treknature.com/gallery/North_America/Mexico/photo65914.htm
>>
>> among others.
>>
>>
>> I was amazed at the requests for the image I shot.
>>
>>
>> Charlie
>> Henderson Co.
>>
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