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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) » Sphinginae » Sphingini » Lintneria » Hermit Sphinx - Hodges#7796 (Lintneria eremitus)
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Pennsylvania Frass - See, even frass can be interesting! - Lintneria eremitus
Copyright © 2013 Jim Eckert

Pennsylvania Frass - See, even frass can be interesting! - Lintneria eremitus
Mountain Road north of Shartlesville, Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA
August 20, 2012
Irregularly shaped fecal pellets of eremitus. Wagner, in Caterpillars of Eastern North America notes, "While most sphingids have cylindrical fecal pellets with six furrows...the droppings of the Hermit and related Sphinx are among the most irregular of all Lepidoptera. (NOTE - please do not move to "Frass".)

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Pennsylvania Caterpillar - green form - Lintneria eremitus Pennsylvania Frass - See, even frass can be interesting! - Lintneria eremitus Pennsylvania Caterpillar - Green form - NEVER TO SPROUT WINGS! - Lintneria eremitus
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Contributed by Jim Eckert on 1 December, 2013 - 11:49am
Last updated 29 December, 2020 - 6:21pm

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