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