Subject: Flying large bug
Geographic location of the bug: Phoenix az
Date: 04/02/2019
Time: 10:40 PM EDT
Your letter to the bugman: What is this?
How you want your letter signed: Honi
Dear Honi,
This is a Whitelined Sphinx Moth, and they are currently flying in Southern California since there are three resting on the front door of the WTB? offices. Significant rainfall in the southwest this winter resulted in “super blooms” in many desert areas, and the increase in vegetation also resulted in more food for caterpillars and moths. We have yet to receive any reports of large numbers of Whitelined Sphinx Caterpillars this year, though we suspect we will receive such reports before long. Some years the Whitelined Sphinx Moths are quite plentiful, and we suspect this will be one of those years.