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Caterpillar Need ID - Protambulyx strigilis
Copyright © 2014 Andres Moline

Caterpillar Need ID - Protambulyx strigilis
weston, Florida, USA
November 1, 2014
Size: about 2 inches
picture taken around 6 pm, seems as if it was a sleep

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Contributed by Andres Moline on 4 November, 2014 - 3:09pm
Last updated 12 November, 2014 - 9:05pm

Please...
fill in the county field in this entry.
… Tony Leukering, 2 December, 2017 - 7:40pm

Protambulyx strigilis
Nice addition to the guide, we only had one other larval image.
… Ryan St Laurent, 4 November, 2014 - 8:28pm

 
Protambulyx strigilis
Many thanks Ryan! I will upload an extra image for the Guide :)
… Andres Moline, 4 November, 2014 - 8:44pm

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Ryan St Laurent, 4 November, 2014 - 8:28pm

looks like
Cocytius
I dunno about the blue spiracles..but close to a giant sphinx cat I think (dangit I was wrong again...)
… Edna Woodward, 4 November, 2014 - 4:03pm

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