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May 6, 2016 9:47 PM CST
Name: Melanie
Lutz, Florida (Zone 9b)
Butterflies Enjoys or suffers hot summers Hummingbirder Birds Bee Lover Bookworm
Region: Florida Celebrating Gardening: 2015 Bromeliad Native Plants and Wildflowers Plant Identifier Salvias
Elfrieda, there are several members of the Sphinx Moth family. Only one of them is the Tobacco Hornworm that eats tomato plants and other things in the nightshade family. (Note: the Tobacco Hornworm is found on the east coast, the Tomato Hornworm is found on the west coast. This is why we use Latin names.)

If you look at last month's thread, you'll see I'm raising a Tersa Sphinx Moth which eats Pentas. I found a Pluto Sphinx Moth once that ate Firebush. The Catalpa Sphinx Moth eats - you guessed it - Catalpa trees!

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