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Tuesday, April 28, 2020

April 28, 2020

Location: Vero Beach, private residence

I am a female Mournful Sphinx moth
I'd have three pointed lobes if I was male.
When I was a caterpillar I ate plants from the grape family
But now my leaf-eating days are curtailed.

Guest Photographer: Heather Stapleton

Sources: Sphingidae of the United States of America - ENYO LUGUBRIS (LINNAEUS, 1771) 

Photo © 2020 Heather Stapleton, text © 2020 Dee Fairbanks Simpson

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