Gallium Sphinx Caterpillar
 

Location: Edmonton, AB
Date: Jul. 1, 2006

                            
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Gallium Sphinx Caterpillar - brown color morph

Common Name:  Gallium Sphinx or Bedstraw Hawk Moth

Latin Name:  Hyles gallii (Rottemburg, 1775)
                        (B.Oehlke, det.)

Length:  mm

Range: Throughout Alberta

Habitat:  Various

Time of year seen: Summer

Caterpillar's Diet:  Fireweed, Woodruff,  & Bedstraw

Other:

 

Photo courtesy J. Bovee ©2006.
         
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