The Banded Sphinx is a spectacularly beautiful hawk moth with rose-pink hindwings and intricately banded olive-brown and cream forewings. Its large, smooth green caterpillar bears eye-like blue false spots and feeds on water purslane in wetland habitats. Adults are powerful nocturnal fliers that visit deep tubular flowers like morning glories for nectar.
Habitat
Wetland margins, roadsides, and gardens in the Southeast
Diet
Larvae: water primrose and evening primrose. Adults: nectar from deep flowers
How common
Uncommon
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