Twin-spotted sphinx
The twin-spotted sphinx is a hawkmoth with scalloped front wings and bright red back wings. On each red back wing there is a blue eyespot, which is sometimes split into two, like twins. Males are grey and females are yellowish brown.
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Fun facts
The grown-up moths have no need to eat. They live on what they ate as caterpillars.
It flies only at night.
Its blue eyespot can be one spot, or be split by black bands into two or three spots.
Most asked questions about Twin-spotted sphinx
?What does the twin-spotted sphinx eat?
The caterpillars eat leaves of willow, poplar, birch and fruit trees. The adult moths do not eat.
?How big is the twin-spotted sphinx?
Its wings measure about 4.5 to 8 centimetres from tip to tip.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Smerinthus jamaicensis
- Named by
- Drury, 1773
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Sphingidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Sphingidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Smerinthus jamaicensis (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 Didier Descouens. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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