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Saturday, October 11, 2008

Camera Critters & Wordless Wednesday - What Am I?????






I am sorry but I need some words here; What the hell is this? It was about as big as my middle finger and had two yellow eyes. It's body was very hard. I am assuming it is a Sphinx Moth of some kind but I am hoping someone could tell me what was hiding in my outdoor gazebo.

For another picture of this interesting creature, come over here to my other blog


AFTER MUCH RESEARCH I HAVE INFORMATION ON THIS CREATURE.
It is called a Tiger Swallowtail. Because of it's color I assumed it was a moth caterpillar. It is not, it is in fact a butterfly.

It took forever to find information on this guy. I was searching through archives of moth caterpillars. Doh!

8 comments:

  1. that would be my guess too i seen one line that be for but it was big and green ok i got it from that movie jodi foster played in with aunthy hopkins maybe thats the kind it is lol

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  2. Anonymous7:57 AM

    OMG, WEIRD!!?!?!?! But COOL :)

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  3. Jenny, I think this starts out green but I can't find anything on it looking like this.

    Bek, Right? Down right creepy

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  4. Anonymous12:39 PM

    Wish I knew! haha :-)

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  5. Man bugs are gross. Hope you find out what it is.

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  6. Anonymous3:38 PM

    I have no idea what that is but you definitely would find me running in the other direction!

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  7. I haven't a clue, but it's very interesting. :-)q

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  8. It makes sense that a very large butterfly would come from a very large caterpillar, I guess. The butterfly is beautiful and the caterpillar is really neat!

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