Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: Woohoo...I have Pluto Sphinx cats!!!, 1 by TexasPuddyPrint

TexasPuddyPrint wrote:
Found two cats crawling up the brickwork on my front porch late last night so I brought them inside. Since I've seen plutos, rustics and vine sphinx moths I wasn't sure what they would be...but on the internet to figure out what they were.

I'm tickled pink!!! I've found cocoons and raised those but these are the first pluto cats I found. Was able to get a few photos this morning but when I went back to check on them they've already started to pupate.

Their larval host is firebush (hamelia patens) and I have two very overgrown hedges of that lining both sides of my driveway. I didn't trim them back to a decent size because I was hoping to attract Plutos....guess it worked!!!

These buggers look scary!!!