Gallium Sphinx Caterpillar
 

Location: Cobble Flats, AB
Date: Aug. 30, 2004 

                             
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Gallium Sphinx Caterpillar (dark color morph)
Common Name:  Gallium Sphinx or Bedstraw Hawk Moth

Latin Name:  Hyles gallii, Rottemburg, 1775
                        (R. Bercha, det.)

Length:  mm

Range: Throughout Alberta

Habitat:  Various

Time of year seen: Summer

Caterpillar's Diet:  Fireweed, Woodruff,  & Bedstraw

Other:

Fireweed - one of the food plants of the Gallium Sphinx Caterpillar
 
         
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