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Carolina Sphinx - Hodges#7775 (Manduca sexta) Caterpillar - Manduca sexta

Carolina Sphinx - Hodges#7775 (Manduca sexta) Caterpillar - Manduca sexta
Green Lane, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA
September 1, 2010
Size: 3 in. plus
5:56 PM, 82 deg. F, no breeze, on tomato plant - This caterpillar was huge. No wasp eggs were visible although all the other caterpillars on our plants were, without exception, parasitized. By noon the next day, this caterpillar was covered with eggs.