Hagen's sphinx
Ceratomia hageni
Hagen's sphinx is a hawk moth from the middle of North America. Its front wings are greyish green with lots of wavy lines. Its caterpillars are very picky and eat only one kind of tree, the Osage orange.
Lives in
The middle of North America, from Michigan to Georgia and Nebraska to Texas
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It cannot bite or sting.
What does it eat?
Its caterpillars eat only the leaves of the Osage orange tree.
How fast is it?
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
Hagen's sphinx about 45 km/h (28 mph)
A car driving in town about 50 km/h (31 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
Its eggs are tiny, only about half a millimetre, and milky white and green.
2
The eggs hatch five to seven days after they are laid.
3
When the caterpillar is fully grown, it climbs down the tree and digs into the ground to turn into a pupa.
4
From egg to pupa takes only about four weeks.
you asked
Most asked questions about Hagen's sphinx
?What does the Hagen's sphinx eat?
Its caterpillars eat only the leaves of the Osage orange tree.
?Where does Hagen's sphinx live?
In the middle of North America, wherever Osage orange trees grow.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Ceratomia hageni
- Named by
- Grote, 1874
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Sphingidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Sphingidae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- Osage orange sphinx
Where the facts come from
- Ceratomia hageni (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Andy Reago & Chrissy McClarren. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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