Achemon sphinx
The Achemon sphinx is a big hawk moth with brown front wings. When it opens them, it shows back wings that are a lovely pale pink. It visits flowers in the evening like a little hummingbird.
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Fun facts
It is one of the five main pollinators of a rare orchid that grows on the American prairies.
Its caterpillars come in three colours: light green, reddish orange, or tan to brown.
The caterpillars are sometimes found munching grape leaves in vineyards.
In the north one family of moths grows up each year, but in the south there are two.
Most asked questions about Achemon sphinx
?How big is the Achemon sphinx?
Its wings measure about 9 to 10 centimetres from tip to tip.
?What does the Achemon sphinx caterpillar eat?
Leaves of grapevines, Virginia creeper and related plants.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Eumorpha achemon
- Named by
- Drury, 1773
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Sphingidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Sphingidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Eumorpha achemon (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 Geoff Gallice from Gainesville. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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