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Field Notes

Description:

mixed woods and vegetable garden. both on tomato

Species ID Suggestions

Tobacco Hornworm

Manduca sexta

Tobacco Hornworm/Laurel Sphinx

Manduca sexta/Sphinx kalmiae

Comments (6)

Here is a reference for the sphinx; http://www.butterfliesandmoths.org/species/Sphinx-kalmiae
These become quite beautiful moths! I hope you raise them, or keep a close eye on them! That would be very interesting!
The darker green one, is the Tobacco, as Eric stated, and the lighter green one is the Laurel Sphinx, characterized by the granular blue horn and the black stripe on the head.

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