Aug 4, 2025
Have you seen the Pandora sphinx moth (Eumorpha pandorus)?
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Yes, in photos/videos
Yes, irl
I'm not sure
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Have you seen the Pandora sphinx moth (Eumorpha pandorus)?
I have now
Yes, in photos/videos
Yes, irl
I'm not sure
my baby girl Moto got a juicy treat today!
Hornworms give bearded dragons lots of water and calcium!
TW bugs / insects
i love hornworms but look at this fat fuck.
it's legitimately almost (if not) 4 inches long and is longer then my hand is wide.
Tobacco hornworm — Manduca sexta 🐛
Often confused with the tomato hornworm—the tobacco hornworm has 7 diagonal stripes along with a red posterior horn, while the tomato hornworm has 8 stripes and a blueish-black posterior horn. 🍅
look how you’ve grown, Diamond!!!!💎🩵
Not cool dude
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Can you please identify this plant for me? I think it's some kind of vine? It's wiggly.
I don’t know anything about bugs, but I have an internet connection and access to Wikipedia, so I am qualified to speak on this topic. What we have here is one of god’s finest creatures: the larval form of the Hemeroplanes triptolemus moth. These caterpillars employ snake mimicry to ward off predators; when threatened, the caterpillar (colloquially referred to as a snake-head caterpillar) inflates body segments near its head that form a diamond-shaped snake head complete with eyes. It has also been observed wiggling its false snake head in a mimicry of snake behavior. Very cool find!
—mod Giles
Hi! Regarding your last post about the laurel sphinx caterpillar, I'm just curious - would the technical term for that lil blue defense be "horn"? I just don't want to sound like an idiot when I'm tryna get my friends to take the caterpill and see the buggy truth.
(p.s. YOUR BLOG IS AMAZING and by default YOU ARE AMAZING!!!!)
(p.p.s. that took forever to do on mobile but u deserve rainbow love damnit)
First of all, no, *YOU* are amazing. Thank you for the kind words.
Yes, that little blue defense is indeed called a horn, technical term is "butt projection" ;-)
Seriously though, the common name for Sphingid caterpillars is "hornworms" for this very reason. For more about this check out this page on @eumorpha-dream 's amazing website, Sphingidae.us: https://www.sphingidae.us/general-information.html