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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Carpenter and Clearwing Moths (Cossoidea) » Clearwing Moths (Sesiidae) » Sesiinae » Synanthedonini » Synanthedon » Florida Oakgall Moth - Hodges#2573 (Synanthedon sapygaeformis)
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not sure bee,wasp moth ?? - Synanthedon sapygaeformis
Copyright © 2008 liagan

not sure bee,wasp moth ?? - Synanthedon sapygaeformis
melbourne, brevard County, Florida, USA
February 22, 2008
Size: half inch
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Contributed by liagan on 24 February, 2008 - 6:07pm
Last updated 7 March, 2008 - 8:10pm

Moved
Moved from Clearwing Moths.
… john and jane balaban, 7 March, 2008 - 8:10pm login or register to post comments

This seems to be Synanthedon
This seems to be Synanthedon sapygaeformis,
Nina
… Nina, 24 February, 2008 - 6:32pm login or register to post comments

Moth!
Wow! I know it's a hawk moth...
...female? I ask this because it has tufts on it's tush associated with making pheromones.

Ah! Is it a squash-vine borer?
http://bugguide.net/node/view/63375

I'm obscenly jealous (not literally)! XD
At the end of last year's fall season, I stumbled across a small gathering of feeding snowberry clearwing caterpillars (a related moth).
Sadly, I wanted nothing more then to photograph but my camera had been broken (I dropped it by accident due to late-night fatigue). I stopped by almost every day to see that nothing ill came of them (unfortunately a couple got stepped on). Yet, despite my efforts, but the time my camera was fixed it was winter & the had all left the spot where I found them.

...Maybe next year... :C
… Jonas Insinga, 24 February, 2008 - 6:10pm login or register to post comments

 
Thank you!!
Thank you!!
… liagan, 24 February, 2008 - 6:16pm login or register to post comments

 
Your welcome. :3
You know... BugGuide.net is one of the few places where I not only feel accepted, but also appreciated & useful. :D
(I'm use to being seen as a nerd. lol)
… Jonas Insinga, 24 February, 2008 - 6:18pm login or register to post comments

 
Scratch that...
It's not a squash-vine borer... the markings are wrong... but I bet it's in the same genus.
http://bugguide.net/node/view/11809
… Jonas Insinga, 24 February, 2008 - 6:24pm login or register to post comments

 
I think I found my own ID Flo
I think I found my own ID Florida oak gall moth (Synanthedon sapygaeformis)
… liagan, 24 February, 2008 - 6:54pm login or register to post comments

 
ID
You are correct - it is Synanthedon sapygaeformis
Its identical to other photos of this species submitted to this site.
… William H. Taft, 7 March, 2008 - 7:56pm login or register to post comments

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