Help Identify This Flying Insect
Sep 17, 2020 12:48:27 #
KenY
Loc: Glenside, Pa
This flying insect looks kinda like a grasshopper in flight, but it doesn't when it is still. Wingspan is about 1.5" to 2" and length from head to tail is about the same.
Does anyone know what this is?
BTW, I am in eastern Pennsylvania, just outside of Philadelphia.
Does anyone know what this is?
BTW, I am in eastern Pennsylvania, just outside of Philadelphia.
Sep 17, 2020 13:06:56 #
Looks like Link https://www.insectidentification.org/insect-description.asp?identification=Banded-Sphinx-Moth
Sep 17, 2020 13:10:09 #
Sep 17, 2020 13:33:21 #
Sep 17, 2020 13:43:39 #
BassmanBruce wrote:
Could be, no expert here.
Sep 17, 2020 13:50:53 #
KenY
Loc: Glenside, Pa
Thanks BassmanBruce. I think Striped Hawk Moth actually looks more like it than the Banded Sphinx Moth.
Sep 17, 2020 14:03:45 #
quixdraw wrote:
Could be, no expert here.
No expert here either, just a old kid who likes bugs.
Sep 18, 2020 09:11:14 #
It's a White Lined Sphinx Moth (Hyles lineata lineata). Here is one I shot while surveying dragonflies at Idylwild WMA in Federalsburg, Maryland last week. I hope you don't mind me dropping my shot in here.
Sep 18, 2020 10:19:37 #
docshark wrote:
It's a White Lined Sphinx Moth (Hyles lineata lineata). Here is one I shot while surveying dragonflies at Idylwild WMA in Federalsburg, Maryland last week. I hope you don't mind me dropping my shot in here.
Doc is correct, it's a White-lined Sphinx Moth - Hyles lineata. It looks very similar to the Banded Sphinx, which is bigger. and has four broad pale stripes.
Both pics are very good.
Sep 18, 2020 10:30:14 #
rob7789 wrote:
Doc is correct, it's a White-lined Sphinx Moth - Hyles lineata. It looks very similar to the Banded Sphinx, which is bigger. and has four broad pale stripes.
Both pics are very good.
Both pics are very good.
Thanks Rob.
-Doc
Sep 18, 2020 19:42:36 #
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