Pandora sphinx
The Pandora sphinx is a big moth with olive green wings and pink touches, like it is wearing camouflage. It flies at dusk and drinks nectar from flowers with a very long tongue. Its caterpillar can grow as long as a finger.
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Fun facts
Its caterpillar has a little horn at the back end, like other hawk moth caterpillars.
The caterpillar can pull its head back into its body, like a turtle.
When the caterpillar is ready, it climbs down and digs into the ground to turn into a moth.
A new moth pumps liquid into its soft wings to stretch them out before it can fly.
Male moths find females by smelling them from far away, flying into the wind to follow the scent.
Most asked questions about Pandora sphinx
?What does the Pandora sphinx moth eat?
The moth drinks flower nectar. Its caterpillar eats leaves of grape vines and Virginia creeper.
?How big is the Pandora sphinx moth?
Its wings are about 8 to 12 centimetres across.
?Is the Pandora sphinx caterpillar dangerous?
No. It has a horn on its back end, but it is harmless.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Eumorpha pandorus
- Named by
- Hübner, 1821
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Sphingidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Sphingidae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- Pandorus sphinx moth
Where the facts come from
- Eumorpha pandorus (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by (c) Laura Gaudette, some rights reserved (CC BY). CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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