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snoid Fleetwood, PA(Zone 6a) Aug 10, 2009

Hi~ I'm brand new to this site but not Florida, and I have a 1 1/2yr old Butterfly and Hummingbird garden. Just starting to see the fruits of my labors, YAY~!
Found a caterpilllar I'm not familiar with. If you can Identify this, can you please let me know what it will become? If the pcture does not show up heres a link to the source that I uploaded. Its a upclose and one with my hand so as to see scale. heres the link: http://fc04.deviantart.com/fs47/f/2009/221/6/6/Mystery_Chatterpillar_by_Paulgswanson.jpg

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snoid Fleetwood, PA(Zone 6a) Aug 10, 2009

Browser messed up heres the photo to attach to it. T~T

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themoonhowl Prairieville, LA(Zone 9a) Aug 10, 2009

That is a member of the Hornworm family. The tomato hornworm can strip a full grown tomato plant in a single day.

http://extension.missouri.edu/publications/DisplayPub.aspx?P=ipm1019-45

They produce the Sphinx , hummingbird, and hawk moths

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suunto Sinks Grove, WV Aug 10, 2009

This is a sphinx moth (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae) caterpillar. There are several species having a roughly similar color pattern; this one might be the pawpaw sphinx, Dolba hyloeus - see http://tinyurl.com/nybc95

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snoid Fleetwood, PA(Zone 6a) Aug 10, 2009

thank you all very much! :)

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