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hawk moth
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hawk moth

Any of a family, Sphingidae, of moths with thick bodies and narrow wings. Some 1,000 species are distributed throughout the world, but they are mainly tropical. The large hawk-moth larva usually has a ‘horn’ at the end of its body – for example, the bright-green tomato hornworm Protoparcequinquemaculata.
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Cabbage-white butterflies will only lay their eggs on plants within the cabbage family, and the massive, white-lined sphinx moth will lay its eggs on or near tomato plants, giving birth to the much despised and huge hornworm.
GOING NATIVE by The Santa Fe New Mexican (Santa Fe, NM)
Everyone is silent as the sphinx moths land on the flowers.
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Byline: Jim Farber Staff Writer An iridescent blue morpho butterfly hovers gracefully above the crimson seed-filled husk of a bursting pomegranate as a banded sphinx moth caterpillar makes its way along one of the plant's delicate stems.
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