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Matilda
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Posted: Aug 28 2008 at 2:03pm | IP Logged Quote Matilda

You can see a picture of what we found floating in the pool here if I can't figure out how to put it in this post. Any ideas what it is or how we can find out? I am pretty good with using some sites and field guides for birds and flowers, but not bugs. Thanks!


Obviously, I didn't figure out the picture thing.

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Posted: Aug 28 2008 at 3:01pm | IP Logged Quote joann10

I looks like some sort of sphinx moth.
http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=220855

Could the lsst picture be it?
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Posted: Aug 28 2008 at 11:47pm | IP Logged Quote MaryM

Matilda wrote:

Obviously, I didn't figure out the picture thing.


Charlotte - I fixed the picture. You did it right. The image was just too large. It looks like the address you inserted was for the full-sized picture when you uploaded but not the modified address after you selected a smaller size for posting. What I did was take the address from the reduced size that was showing up on the blog. Does that make sense?

Oh and sorry I'm no help with moth identification.

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Posted: Aug 31 2008 at 10:45pm | IP Logged Quote cornomama4

I'm going to guess white lined sphynx, probably the male: http://www.desertusa.com/mag99/jan/papr/sphinx.html

The most bizarre thing is that the kids and I found a moth on 8/27 that I "had" to know what it was. I spent over an hour navigating "bug" sites and couldn't figure it out. Then I went on again just now to see if I could find your moth and the first picture I clicked on was "our" moth! Ceratomia undulosa

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