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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Silkworm, Sphinx, and Royal Moths (Bombycoidea) » Sphinx Moths (Sphingidae) » Smerinthinae » Smerinthini » Paonias » Blinded Sphinx - Hodges#7824 (Paonias excaecata)
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Catapillar 02a - Paonias excaecata
Copyright © 2007 Karl Volkman

Catapillar 02a - Paonias excaecata
Republic, Ferry County, Washington, USA
September 6, 2007
Found on a Spiraea sp bush. First specimen with a second specimen still on on a twig
Photographed in Republic, ~30 miles south of the Canadian Border, ~150 miles east of the Cascade Mountains, at ~2100 ft in elevation

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Paonias excaecatus 01a - Paonias excaecata Catapillar 02a - Paonias excaecata
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Contributed by Karl Volkman on 12 September, 2007 - 3:12pm
Last updated 14 September, 2007 - 7:23pm

It's some kind of hornworm, n
It's some kind of hornworm, not sure on sp.
… Christina , 12 September, 2007 - 3:53pm login or register to post comments

 
Not many to choose from in Washington
Compared to down here in the south, anyway. This one should be a Blinded Sphinx, Paonias excaecatus. Here is Bill Oehlke's Washington Sphingidae page (he has one for every state). The food plant was a useful tip as well.
… Bobby Grizzard, 12 September, 2007 - 11:12pm login or register to post comments

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