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Tobacco Hornworm

Manduca sexta

Photo by gtrweeps
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Field Notes

Notes:

Found this guy eating our "Big Boy Hybrid" tomatoes.

Species ID Suggestions

Carolina Sphinx (Tobacco Hornworm)

Manduca sexta

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ForestDragon
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Comments (2)
LivanEscudero
Looks like one of the Manduca sp. Sphinx moths. Perhaps this one or similar 9this one is in FL and feeds on tomato): http://bugguide.net/node/view/3244
shebebusynow
My first thought is a tomato cutworm. Detail of the lower parts might confirm that.
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PublishedMarch 2, 2012

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