hornworm by Apophis906

Photography • Creatures • posted on Aug 24, 2004

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Description

Well I put together some pics of a Tobacco Hornworm Moth(Manduca sexta) caterpillar. The upper left one is a young one, the upper right one is a more mature one. The bottom left is a close up of the head of the mature one, so you can see its real legs,and not the flase suction legs. Now the bottom right one is what happens with certain wasp find one. The white eggs are from a parasitic wasp, eventually all the eggs will hatch and the caterpillar will die. They eat foliage of plants like tobacco, tomato, and potato. The moths are also known as "Carolina Sphinx","Six-spotted Sphinx", and "tobacco fly".

Comments (12)

RobertTheoret

12:12AM | Tue, 24 August 2004

WOW. Super captures and the details, what can I say. Great presentation. BRAVOS!!! and V

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nongo

12:27AM | Tue, 24 August 2004

This is a fabulous series, just beautiful!!! Love the colors and the textures and the little eyeball looking things!!!!! Excellent!!!!

funkandjazz

12:50AM | Tue, 24 August 2004

Great work putting this together and wonderful shots! :)

PapaGuru

2:26AM | Tue, 24 August 2004

Great shots and very interesting too, thanks :)

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gunsan

6:13AM | Tue, 24 August 2004

So incredibly cute they are, yet in my garden I don't like them....but your compo is wonderful!

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Enmos

11:28AM | Tue, 24 August 2004

Awesome collage !!! Thanks for the info too !! v

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jcv2

3:48PM | Tue, 24 August 2004

Funny view of those eggs on its body although it meas it will come to a dramatic end! Excellent shots and presentation!

Michelle A.

5:34PM | Tue, 24 August 2004

Wonderful images....!

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NODROG69

1:49AM | Wed, 25 August 2004

Excellent set of images with wonderful presentation.

AgentMai

3:03AM | Wed, 25 August 2004

I love how you've set these photos out! This is a very cute caterpillar, but I feel sorry for him in the last photo....Love the vibrant greens! Excellent =)

Pierre59

2:32PM | Wed, 25 August 2004

Excellentes macros, belle prentation... VOTE

Judi1423

12:12AM | Sat, 28 August 2004

It is amazing that those yucky insects are so beautiful close up.... great collage...