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TurtleChi Danville, VA(Zone 7a) Aug 25, 2007

Could someone please tell me what this is? I am hoping it is a good cat. as I am not going to kill it as it is beautiful.....
Thank you for any help.
Susan

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claypa West Pottsgrove, PA(Zone 6b) Aug 25, 2007

Some kind of sphinx moth - what was it eating?

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TurtleChi Danville, VA(Zone 7a) Aug 25, 2007

it was on the ground near my plumerias...
So is it not a tomato hornworm ??? I dont care as I am letting him go tomorrow anyway I can't kill the little cuttie...
Susan

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claypa West Pottsgrove, PA(Zone 6b) Aug 25, 2007

I don't know - it has a lot of brown on it - I was thinking one of the tree-eating sphinx moths ?

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fly_girl The Woodlands, TX(Zone 8b) Aug 25, 2007

It looks like a mutant Pink-spotted Hawkmoth:

http://www.silkmoths.bizland.com/acingula.htm

But all that brown/red on his back.....can't find that anywhere. Not sure either.

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TurtleChi Danville, VA(Zone 7a) Aug 25, 2007

I am sorry the picture was so bad... I let him go today... We have allot of the URL above moths.. Also the humming bird moth. I just could not kill him... Now if he were a JBeetle I would have had no problem..LOL
Susan

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fly_girl The Woodlands, TX(Zone 8b) Aug 25, 2007

I'm glad you spared his life, he is cool. It's hard to keep them when you don't know what they are and don't know what they eat.
I looked through a lot of sphinx moth cat pics and could not find a match, sorry.

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