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Pennsylvania Frass - See, even frass can be interesting! - Lintneria eremitus

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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