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Humming bird hawk moth Southern Arizona experienced the hottest summer ever recorded in 2020. A year later we may break the wettest monsoon season ever recorded which has brought out an abundance of insects and wildflowers. These moth caterpillars are numerous which should make for an interesting moth season. Geotagged,United States,White-lined sphinx Click/tap to enlarge Promoted

Humming bird hawk moth

Southern Arizona experienced the hottest summer ever recorded in 2020. A year later we may break the wettest monsoon season ever recorded which has brought out an abundance of insects and wildflowers. These moth caterpillars are numerous which should make for an interesting moth season.

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  1. View Ferdy Christant's profile
    Ferdy Christant
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    Looking forward to more rewards from this change in weather!

    Note that I changed the species. The one is was originally pointing to, Macroglossum stellatarum, is a Eurasian species. To complicate things further, "Hummingbird Moth" means different genuses when used in the US vs Europe, plus in either case it can be multiple individual species, not a single one.

    Anyway, I'm reasonably sure this is Hyles lineata, the color of the larvae are variable, here's an example from Arizona:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyles_lineata#/media/File:Hyles_lineata_larvae.jpg     Posted 4 years ago

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The White-lined sphinx

"Hyles lineata", also known as the white-lined sphinx, is a moth of the family Sphingidae. They are sometimes known as the hummingbird moth because of their bird-like size and flight patterns.

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