285. Elegant Sphinx Moth

Sphinx perelegans occurs from southern British Columbia to Baja California.  The beautiful larvae feeds on arbutus, snowberry, manzanita and can be a pest on plum or apple trees. I've never seen the larvae but there are some honkin' big chunks out of some of the arbutus leaves that look as though this guy could have done. 

I was a bit distracted while trying to get a photograph of this twitchy moth - not only had it come in through the open window to light in the bedroom, but so had a bat which was swooping around the room at the same time. I didn't get a photo of it!

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