Genetically confused caterpillar?

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Hetnkik Detroit, MI Jun 04, 2015

Just saw this poor guy at the park. Seems to have two conjoined incomplete bodies?

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kittriana Magnolia, TX(Zone 9a) Jun 04, 2015

Sphinx Moth. Hawk moth. Not Butterfly

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Hetnkik Detroit, MI Jun 04, 2015

But can you see how it seems to have two bodies forming?

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porkpal Richmond, TX Jun 04, 2015

Not just two moths?

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Hetnkik Detroit, MI Jun 04, 2015

Looks connected at back ends, and stays together when it moved onto a stick i put next to it.

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Flapdoodle Minot, ND Jun 04, 2015

These are mating cecropia moths (Hyalophora cecropia) in the family Saturniidae -
http://www.butterfliesandmoths.org/species/Hyalophora-cecropia

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Hetnkik Detroit, MI Jun 04, 2015

Lul. That makes alot more sense. The likeness of it's thorax? to a caterpillar and it lieing around not fleeing threw me off. I feel naive now ; ).

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Hetnkik Detroit, MI Jun 04, 2015



This message was edited Jun 4, 2015 10:34 PM

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1lisac Liberty Hill, TX(Zone 8a) Jun 05, 2015

Lol maybe this thread should be marked "solved"?

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