My vacation to the deserts of Southern California
Mar 28, 2016 21:56:06 GMT
andrew, maria, and 2 more like this
Post by High Priestess on Mar 28, 2016 21:56:06 GMT
Hi all
I want to share some of my vacation to Southern California and especially Death Valley. Here is a video I made, showing a very colorful caterpillar (which I found over 100 of!!) crawling about happily in the generally very barren desert of Death Valley.
Interestingly, someone else also created another YouTube video of the same exact caterpillar in Death Valley as well, almost on the exact same day I did mine. Mine was created March 23, he posted his March 24th.
He identifies this caterpillar as that of the White-Lined Sphinx Moth, which I am happy to find out about, --- I had been very curious what it was. HEre is a page that identifies it:
www.pbase.com/image/129220581
Here's the adult White LIned Sphinx MOth:(also called a Hummingbird MOth because it hovers like a hummingbird, which you can see in this photo)
ANd here is some information about them:
www.desertusa.com/insects/sphinx-moths.html
I want to share some of my vacation to Southern California and especially Death Valley. Here is a video I made, showing a very colorful caterpillar (which I found over 100 of!!) crawling about happily in the generally very barren desert of Death Valley.
Interestingly, someone else also created another YouTube video of the same exact caterpillar in Death Valley as well, almost on the exact same day I did mine. Mine was created March 23, he posted his March 24th.
He identifies this caterpillar as that of the White-Lined Sphinx Moth, which I am happy to find out about, --- I had been very curious what it was. HEre is a page that identifies it:
www.pbase.com/image/129220581
Here's the adult White LIned Sphinx MOth:(also called a Hummingbird MOth because it hovers like a hummingbird, which you can see in this photo)
ANd here is some information about them:
www.desertusa.com/insects/sphinx-moths.html