Photo 2344565, (c) Chuck Sexton, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Chuck Sexton

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What

Gaudy Sphinx (Eumorpha labruscae)

Observer

gcwarbler

Date

September 27, 2007

Description

...or as I call it, the "Ridiculously Gaudy Sphinx". Certainly one of the jazziest critters ever to show up at my porchlight. A glimpse of the hindwing in the 3rd image shows of bits of black, white, blue, yellow, orange, and red!

This was a first BG record of the species for Texas at the time:
http://bugguide.net/node/view/442092/bgimage
I'd not seen the species before or since this occurrence.

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