Posts Tagged: sphinx moth
The Hornworms Are Not Your Friends
If you love tomatoes, you probably hate hornworms. Frankly, the garden's not big enough for...
This hornworm is feeding on a pepper plant. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
When the caterpillar or larva is disturbed, it "rears up into an Egyptian sphinx-like pose," says entomologist Jeff Smith, curator of the Lepidoptera collection at the Bohart Museum of Entomology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The frass (droppings) from a hornworm. It's a tell-tale sign you have hornworms in your garden. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The tomato hornworm turns into a sphinx moth or hummingbird moth (family Sphingidae). (Wikipedia Photo)
Summer's Voracious Eater.
By Penny Pawl, UC Master Gardener of Napa County The tomato hornworm that so many gardeners detest...
Tomato hornworm--the horns are on the rear end. (UC ANR)
Sphinx moth (Master Gardener Assn of San Diego)
Tomato hornworm pupa.cocoon (UC IPM)
Hard to see hornworm (Extension Master Gardener Volunteers of Durham County)
Tomato hornworm damage (UC IPM)
Hornworm with frass--how you can tell they've been eating your tomatoes; this is on leaves below the caterpillar (UC IPM)
Hornworm with braconid wasp larvae (Univ of Maryland Extension)
Anise swallowtail--caterpillars not having been host to parasitic wasps become this pretty garden visitor (Allan Jones, UC ANR)
Sphinx moth ..... (UC IPM)
.... starts out like this tomato hornworm egg (Extension Master Gardener Volunteers of Durham County)
The OTHER Pollinators.
In recent years, the plight of the honeybee has made international headlines due to alarming colony...
Behold the White-Lined Sphinx Moth
Our cat used to catch them. She'd bring them into the house and watch them flutter at our...
White-lined sphinx moth in flight. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
White-lined sphinx moth heads for salvia (sage). (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
View from above of the white-lined sphinx moth. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Big on Butterflies
Our cat is an entomologist. She has no formal training in the science of insects, but she can...
Xena the Warrior Princess is a feline entomologist. She specializes in butterflies and sphinx moths. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Our feline entomologist collects moths. This is probably a sphinx moth, the adult form of the tomato hornworm (Manduca sexta (Linnaeus). (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)