#3130 · 🦋 butterflies & moths

Carolina Sphinx

🇳🇱 Tabakspijlstaart ·Manduca sexta

🦋 Butterflies & moths 📍 outside Europe

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Richard Crook · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
2. © G and B · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
3. © Douglas Goldman · CC BY-SA 4.0
4. © Nathan Taylor · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Nathan Taylor · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Seth Welliver Sr · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Newning Ave, Austin, TX, US:© Clifton Ladd, C.W.B. · CC BY 4.0
8. Elmore County, AL, USA:© stomlins701 · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Windsor, ON, CA:© papillon_ish · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Davie, FL, US:© no rights reserved · CC0

what is it?

Manduca sexta is a moth of the family Sphingidae present through much of the American continent.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 34,685iNaturalist observations

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
34,685 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named in 1763 (263 years ago).