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Achemon Sphinx Moth

Eumorpha achemon

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This bug has been reportedly found in the following regions:

Glendale, Arizona

Barling, Arkansas

Calistoga, California

Coushatta, Louisiana

Millbury, Massachusetts

Belton, Missouri

Springfield, Missouri

Albuquerque, New Mexico(3 reports)

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Fort Worth, Texas

Lynnwood, Washington

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tardis

Albuquerque, NM | July 2010 | Positive

I have found their caterpillars on Virginia Creeper foliage and adults feeding on Datura and Ipomoea alba flower nectar here in Albuquerque. They aren't abundant and I don't mind the damage as the adults are extremely attractive and very entertaining to watch at dusk, bobbing drunkenly amongst the Datura flowers with their long probosci dangling.

BST_Lover

Oklahoma City, OK (Zone 7a) | February 2007 | Positive

Host plants are grape, ampelopsis brevipedunculata, and Virginia Creeper, all in the grape family. This photo is the brown form, more common in late summer-early fall. The green form is more common in spring-early summer.

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