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Xylophanes tersa
It is a large sphinx moth caterpillar that is in its fourth instar.The species has eyespots to mimic an owls eye but the real eyes are under the large ones.
Pentas bush on fort worth texas
Comes every year at the same time
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No problem, ornithoptera :)
Thank you Jae for the information
https://www.projectnoah.org/faq#q10
for some reason i'm not getting patches any more,can anybody tell why
Thank you all for favoriting this spotting(:
thanks, and i will also add the other end(:
Any shots of the other end... claspers etc.?
What a spectacular beast. ;-)