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Abbott's Sphinx Moth: this caterpillar has a false eye on its rump; it mimics the features of a vertebrate's eye, and even includes a white reflection spot
The formal name for this species is Sphecodina abbottii.
From Minnesota Seasons:
The caterpillar is up to 3″ (7.5 cm) long. Middle stage (instar) caterpillars are whitish to bluish-green. In place of the horn found on other sphinx caterpillars, there is a raised orange knob on the eighth abdominal segment (A8). Final instar caterpillars come in two color forms. The brown color form has longitudinal streaks of light and dark brown mimicking the color of a woody vine. The green form has on each abdominal segment a large, pale green, saddle-shaped spot on the upper side and a similar smaller spot on each side. The pattern is said to mimic a bunch of unripe grapes. Both forms have a black, raised, eye-like knob on A8 complete with a small white spot mimicking reflected light.
When the caterpillar is pinched or poked, it often squeaks and bites at the attacker.
The fully-developed moth also has a unique appearance -- it has an ash-grey/blue coloration with streaks of pink and black.
Sources & More Info:
Encyclopedia of Life: Sphecodina abbottii
Insect Identification: Abbott's Sphinx Moth
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee: Saukeville Field Station
Minnesota Seasons: Abbott's Sphinx Moth
University of Minnesota Garden Extension: Abbott's Sphinx
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Queen Chrysalis Stimboard for anon
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oh yeah. he’s scittering
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Shes everything to me
I really really like bugs. they're so colorful and they have more legs than I could ever imagine. sometimes they fly
Had the coolest guest at my house today. Made sure to let it outside in a safe spot. This was my first time encountering a praying mantis
Ok so I'm taking a genetics class right now and in lab we've been given fruit flies with different mutations that we need to breed over the course of the semester.
Now, first thing I learned: fruit flies don't eat fruit. They eat yeast. They eat the yeast on fermenting fruit. They can not actually eat fruit. Their name is a lie.
Secondly, one of the two mutant lines I was given to cross are flies with the apterous mutation, aka they're wingless. I feel so bad for them, they can't do the one thing they're named for, they cant fly.
And then I realized. My fruit flies are in truth insects that eat yeast and can't fly.
Anyways, I've been calling them my yeast crawls and I am their god now.
The longer I live on this earth and the longer I spend in my genetics class, the more I think bug scientists are honestly right. These lil guys are so stupid and I love them so much.
Look at these little guys.
They're so small. They have such big, dumb, inocent eyes. They don't know that there's thousands of beings so much larger than they could ever comprehend who all think these lil flies are fantastic. They don't even know.
.... wait I was trying to write a post about cool things I've learned about these guys uuuHH-
hello yes plz keep us updated on the yeast crawls
Yall I have some FANTASTIC news: today I saw the first little F2 generation* larvae. It was so honking tiny. I could barely see the lil guy.
*F2 generation means the second generation after your original parents, so basically the grandkids of your first organisms you had bred. F2 generations also tend to be very.... sweet home Alabama, shall we say, which is done to get the resessive traits to get expressed in their ofspring that was expressed in the original parents.
Oh thats a HORRIFYING addition.
Can you imagine how much yeast a cat sized yeast crawl would consume??? There would be absolutely no way they wouldn't just flat out break out in their desire for yeast, and then they'd find the local brewery and eat all of their brewer's yeast, and I live in a small university/bar city so the local government would definitely come for my head for daring to harm the beer production.
They wouldn't care about the fact that scientific horrors had been unleashed on the public tho, they'd only care about the beer.
Ok so I'm taking a genetics class right now and in lab we've been given fruit flies with different mutations that we need to breed over the course of the semester.
Now, first thing I learned: fruit flies don't eat fruit. They eat yeast. They eat the yeast on fermenting fruit. They can not actually eat fruit. Their name is a lie.
Secondly, one of the two mutant lines I was given to cross are flies with the apterous mutation, aka they're wingless. I feel so bad for them, they can't do the one thing they're named for, they cant fly.
And then I realized. My fruit flies are in truth insects that eat yeast and can't fly.
Anyways, I've been calling them my yeast crawls and I am their god now.