Whitelined Sphinx Caterpillar

Subject:  Caterpillar
Geographic location of the bug:  Superior, Arizona
Date: 09/15/2018
Time: 07:31 PM EDT
Your letter to the bugman:  Seen crawling on a path in Boyce Thompson Arboretum
How you want your letter signed:  Lucy Lancaster

Whitelined Sphinx Caterpillar

Dear Lucy,
This is a Whitelined Sphinx Caterpillar, a species with several color morphs, including a dark variant we just posted.  Whitelined Sphinx Caterpillars are prove to periodical population explosions, especially in areas of the arid Southwest.

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Location: Superior, Arizona