Manduca Pictures

Manduca sexta Pictures These pictures were taken by Thomas Hörbrand.
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Links to Pictures on the Web

Larva parasitized by a Cotesia wasp (Penn State University).
A large number of images of all life stages (University of Wisconsin-Madison).
Images of flying moths (Palomar College, California).
Egg through fifth instar larva (Carleton College, Minnesota).
Larvae and pupa (Purdue University, Indiana).
All life stages on and under a tobacco plant (Universiy of Illinois).
Adult moths and a fifth instar larva (University of Georgia Museum of Natural History).
A number of unique images of different stages (Ohio University).

Richard B. Dominick Moth and Butterfly Collection (University of South Carolina).

Adult / Caterpillar (U.S. Geological Survey).
Manduca sexta (INRA, France) this is where the moth on these pages originally comes from.
Entomology at Clemson University, South Carolina

Feeding larva (North Carolina State University). Has anybody seen them do anything else but feed??
Larva on a black background, therefore not feeding, too (University of Arizona).
Feeding adult (University of Illinois).
Hornworms (University of Florida).

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Last Update: August 2, 2001
Jan Dolzer

Manduca sexta Pictures