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Tobacco Hornworm

Manduca sexta

Notes:

Found this guy eating our "Big Boy Hybrid" tomatoes.

1 Species ID Suggestions

Carolina Sphinx (Tobacco Hornworm)
Manduca sexta Species Manduca sexta - Carolina Sphinx - Hodges#7775 - BugGuide.Net


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2 Comments

LivanEscudero
LivanEscudero 12 years ago

Looks like one of the Manduca sp. Sphinx moths. Perhaps this one or similar 9this one is in FL and feeds on tomato):
http://bugguide.net/node/view/3244

shebebusynow
shebebusynow 12 years ago

My first thought is a tomato cutworm. Detail of the lower parts might confirm that.

gtrweeps
Spotted by
gtrweeps

Florida, USA

Spotted on Mar 1, 2012
Submitted on Mar 2, 2012

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