{"id":16422,"date":"2025-08-13T08:47:41","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T13:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/?p=16422"},"modified":"2025-08-13T08:47:43","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T13:47:43","slug":"blinded-sphinx-moth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/bug-of-the-week\/blinded-sphinx-moth\/","title":{"rendered":"Blinded Sphinx Moth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Greetings, BugFans,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BugFan Cheryl recently shared this picture of a lovely sphinx moth (thanks, Cheryl).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sphinx moths (aka Hawk moths, especially across The Pond) are a group of medium-to-large moths that are sometimes drab, sometimes exquisite, sometimes nocturnal, sometimes diurnal. They are strong, fast flyers (3 to 11 mph) with narrow wings, and some can hover as they feed, making people think they\u2019re looking at a small hummingbird. Sphinx moths can also move laterally (\u201cswing-hovering\u201d or \u201cside-slipping\u201d).\u00a0Special adaptations in their antennae allow them to maintain their orientation during tight aerial maneuvers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They come in quite a variety of shapes and colors. One of the BugLady\u2019s favorites is the beautiful White-lined Sphinx <a href=\"https:\/\/bugguide.net\/node\/view\/2280104\/bgimage\">Hyles lineata &#8211; White-lined Sphinx? &#8211; Hyles lineata &#8211; BugGuide.Net<\/a>, which has outbreak years when it\u2019s everywhere &#8211; on flowers in gardens and garden stores and on banks of Jewelweed in late summer (she saw a half-dozen tonight on her Bouncing Bet plants).\u00a0She\u2019s also partial to the hummingbird moths that dance around to the other side of the wild bergamot when she aims her camera\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bugguide.net\/node\/view\/1893651\/bgimage\">Snowberry Clearwing_Hemaris diffinis &#8211; Hemaris diffinis &#8211; BugGuide.Net<\/a>, and to the odd, little Nessus <a href=\"https:\/\/bugguide.net\/node\/view\/2031260\/bgimage\">Nessus? &#8211; Amphion floridensis &#8211; BugGuide.Net<\/a>\u00a0and Abbot\u2019s Sphinxes <a href=\"https:\/\/bugguide.net\/node\/view\/392361\/bgimage\">Sphecodina abbottii &#8211; BugGuide.Net<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sphinx moths are one of the groups in which the caterpillar and the adult may have different common names, with many of the sphinx moths named after their appearance or their host plants, and the caterpillars collectively called hornworms (some species have a long horn to the rear when they start but lose it as they age <a href=\"https:\/\/bugguide.net\/node\/view\/585107\">Pandorus Sphinx &#8211; Eumorpha pandorus &#8211; BugGuide.Net<\/a>). The well-known\/notorious Tomato hornworm is the caterpillar of the not-so-well-known Five Spotted Hawk moth <a href=\"https:\/\/bugguide.net\/node\/view\/844648\/bgimage\">Five-spotted Hawk Moth &#8211; Manduca quinquemaculatus &#8211; BugGuide.Net<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The name \u201cSphinx\u201d apparently came from the caterpillar\u2019s habit, when resting, of raising the front part of its body off the ground, and so resembling an Egyptian Sphinx\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bugguide.net\/node\/view\/2304609\/bgimage\">Tobacco Hornworm Caterpillar &#8211; Manduca sexta &#8211; BugGuide.Net<\/a>. Alarmed sphinx caterpillars have a habit of vomiting the gooey (and depending on what they\u2019ve been eating, possibly toxic) contents of their foregut at predators.\u00a0Caterpillars of the Walnut Sphinx\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bugguide.net\/node\/view\/1799946\/bgimage\">Amorpha juglandis &#8211; BugGuide.Net<\/a> scare intruders by pushing air through their spiracles (breathing holes) to make a hiss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not all sphinx moths feed as adults, but those that do prefer tube-shaped flowers. They do provide pollination services, although because they hover instead of landing, the pollen rides on their proboscis rather than their body. They pollinate night-blooming flowers that bees miss.\u00a0For a great story about Charles Darwin and a sphinx moth, see\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/animals\/wallaces-sphinx-moth-the-long-tongued-insect-predicted-by-darwin-a-century-before-it-was-discovered\">here<\/a>.\u00a0Predators that catch a meaty sphinx moth have got themselves a 7-course meal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s called a BLIND-EYED or BLINDED SPHINX (<em>Paonias<\/em>\u00a0<em>excaecata<\/em>) not because it\u2019s blind, but because the blue \u201ceyespots\u201d in its wings lack a black \u201cpupil\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bugguide.net\/node\/view\/2378511\/bgimage\">Paonias excaecata &#8211; BugGuide.Net<\/a>. <em>Excaecata<\/em>\u00a0is from the Latin \u201cexcaeco,\u201d \u201cto blind.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the range map at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bugguide.net\/node\/view\/15740\">Welcome to BugGuide.Net! &#8211; BugGuide.Net<\/a>, they\u2019re found in woodlands, clearings, gardens, and suburbs across Canada and in all but four states of the Lower 48.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They are large moths, with deeply scalloped wings and wingspans up to about 4,\u201d and they come in shades from pale to caramel to dark.\u00a0They\u2019re active at night, and they hide in the daytime by mimicking dead leaves\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bugguide.net\/node\/view\/1239196\/bgimage\">Blinded Sphinx &#8211; Paonias excaecata &#8211; BugGuide.Net<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While some Sphinx moths are food specialists, Blinded Sphinxes are more catholic eaters \u2013 their caterpillars are found on apple, basswood, birch, cherry, elm, hawthorn, Hop Hornbeam, oaks, poplar, rose, serviceberry, willow and more (and, of course, the broader your palette, the wider your range is able to be).\u00a0Adult mouthparts are not developed and they don\u2019t feed, living for just a few days on fat reserves laid down by the caterpillar.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here in God\u2019s Country they have a single brood per year, with adults seen in the first half of summer, but in Southern Climes they may have as many as three generations annually.\u00a0The caterpillars are large (up to 3\u201d long when mature) and spectacular\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bugguide.net\/node\/view\/2215435\/bgimage\">Pennsylvania Caterpillar &#8211; Paonias excaecata &#8211; BugGuide.Net<\/a>. For some great pictures of their life stages see <a href=\"https:\/\/bugguide.net\/node\/view\/2180342\/bgimage\">Paonias excaecata &#8211; BugGuide.Net<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bugguide.net\/node\/view\/1290762\/bgimage\">Blinded Sphinx &#8211; Paonias excaecata &#8211; BugGuide.Net<\/a>. The final brood of the year burrows into the ground and overwinters as a pupa, and newly-emerged adults mate almost immediately <a href=\"https:\/\/bugguide.net\/node\/view\/1977772\/bgimage\">Paonias excaecata &#8211; Blinded sphinx moths mating? &#8211; Paonias excaecata &#8211; BugGuide.Net<\/a> because the clock\u2019s ticking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UNRELATED INSECT ADVENTURE: the BugLady was at a small nature preserve recently that has a single, narrow track in and out. Just after she started heading out, she noticed a female American Pelecinid wasp <a href=\"https:\/\/bugguide.net\/node\/view\/2081294\">Pelecinus polyturator &#8211; BugGuide.Net<\/a> inside the car, trying to get outside the car. She stopped and tried unsuccessfully to get a shot of it against the driver\u2019s side window. At that moment, of course, a pickup started down the drive toward her, so she had to pull off a bit to let it past. While she did this, she could see the wasp perched on\/wrapped around the right side of the frame of her eyeglasses. She gave up on the picture, opened the window, and waved her glasses around outside, and the wasp flew away. To find out what the American Pelecinid wasp is all about, see <a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/bug-of-the-week\/american-pelecinid-wasp\/\">American Pelecinid Wasp (Family Pelecinidae) \u2013 Field Station<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bug adventures &#8211; everywhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The BugLady<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings, BugFans, BugFan Cheryl recently shared this picture of a lovely sphinx moth (thanks, Cheryl). 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