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Manduca sexta
Copyright © 2009 Tanya Dapkey

Manduca sexta
Levittown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, USA
July 18, 2009
Found eating my tomato plants, rearing to adult. Pupated first week of August.

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Contributed by Tanya Dapkey on 17 August, 2009 - 8:12am
Last updated 6 October, 2009 - 11:41pm

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Any new updates?
All of these images has the same date entered for "date taken" field. I was just wondering if that correct?
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Pupation
Was around Aug 4-6. I last checked the caterpillar the 4th and he was close. I took the photo of the pupa Aug 6th. He eclosed around Aug 18th
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