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Green worm, large, false eyes, spiked-top rear end (magenta spike), bulky body, fast moving, black & white stripe per body segment, 3 sets of utilitarian feet, 5 remaining pairs of feet are bulky with what looks like eyelashes that are used for holding on with.
Rural area/near wooded area
Found on small red pepper plant (not sure which variety).
Here's a quick way to tell them apart:
Manduca sexta | tobacco hornworm | red tipped horn
Manduca quinquemaculata | tomato hornworm | black tipped horn
There were four worms of varying size on a small red pepper plant (I'm not certain which variety of red pepper).
It does look like a tobacco hornworm, from the other confirmed images I've seen.
I suggested tomato hornworm because that's what I believed my spotting was of http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/688.... However I'm now leaning towards tobacco hornworm for both http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manduca_sex... and http://www.coopext.colostate.edu/4DMG/Pe.... What is confusing me is I've had these moths http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manduca_qui... in my garden as well.
Spotted on Aug 22, 2011
Submitted on Aug 22, 2011
