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nushiamme Chennai, India Dec 25, 2008

Does anyone know what species this belongs to? It grows on a plant of the Nerium species. The caterpillar is green in the early stages with 2 blue eyespots on its anterior thorax.

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suunto Sinks Grove, WV Dec 25, 2008

I believe that this is an oleander hawk moth, Daphnis nerii; Lepidoptera: Sphingidae - see http://tpittaway.tripod.com/sphinx/d_ner.htm for detailed information.

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nushiamme Chennai, India Dec 26, 2008

Thank you suunto, that looks like it.

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kniphofia Cramlington, United Kingdom(Zone 8a) Dec 28, 2008

Beautiful!

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