Cindy Burkhardt had been watching a sphinx moth caterpillar in her garden for several days, but then it disappeared. Soon thereafter, she saw another trundling across a dirt road on Rabbit ...

The caterpillars of the white-lined sphinx moth are ordinarily lime green or yellow with black markings. They can grow as big as the width of your hand and have a yellow or orange horn with a ...

Ugly, but harmless. The caterpillars of the white-lined sphinx moth are ordinarily lime green or yellow with black markings. They can grow as big as the width of your hand and have a yellow or ...

The white-lined sphinx moth caterpillars are in their “wandering phase,” which takes place right before they burrow underground to pupate, according to Sarah Britton, a doctoral student in ...

I watched the caterpillars but did not pick them up. These caterpillars grow into tetrio or frangipani sphinx moths,Pseudosphinx tetrio, with a wingspan of five inches. In contrast to the bright ...

Achemon sphinx moths are the smallest in the genus Eumorpha, but are large in comparison to moths in general. They have a body length of up to 2 inches and wing spans from 3.4 to 3.8 inches. At top of ...

White-lined sphinx moth caterpillars can grow up to 5 inches long. After abundant monsoon storms, caterpillars are showing up in Arizona swimming pools and gardens, and on walls and hiking trails.

These caterpillars range from yellow to black with ... and an 1884 article by naturalist William Green Wright describes the collection of white-lined sphinx moth caterpillars that were feeding ...

Sphinx moths have a number of traits usually described with superlatives. They are strong and fast fliers — top speed is 30 mph, and males have been documented to fly over 2 miles to find a mate.

MESA — Kelsey Shaw and her two children pick up large yellow and green caterpillars just off the Bush Highway near Saguaro Lake. The children have no hesitation handling these nearly 2- to 3 ...

White-lined sphinx moth caterpillars can grow up to 5 inches long. After abundant monsoon storms, caterpillars are showing up in Arizona swimming pools and gardens, and on walls and hiking trails.