Jose Mediavilla
Tobacco Hornworm
© Jose O. Mediavilla 2009
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My mother found this guy eating her green pepper plants. She threw him inside the trash, and he managed to find his way out. I found him hanging on the wall inside the house this afternoon. My mother wanted me to get rid of him. But I had to get a shot first. I put him right back on the same plant he was eating before. He started eating the leaf right away. After a while I moved the leaf away from him and he got scared and stayed real still in this position. When I put the leaf back after I got the shot he continued to eat and the leaf was gone in a matter of seconds. My mom didn't want him eating up her plants anymore so I had to take him out of the yard and into a new spot by the lake in our neighborhood.
He was a pretty cool model. Didn't know what he was until I looked him up online. Thought he was a tomato hornworm but Wikipedia says he's a Tobacco Hornworm because of the seven diagonal lines on his back. They mature into a Five-Spotted Hawkmoth (Manduca quinquemaculata).
Exposure: The Hornworm was in some pretty bright early afternoon sunlight, and the background was a shaded patio (which made for the perfect black background).
Photo By: Jose O. Mediavilla
Tobacco Hornworm
© Jose O. Mediavilla 2009
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
No rights granted unless in writing by Jose O. Mediavilla
My mother found this guy eating her green pepper plants. She threw him inside the trash, and he managed to find his way out. I found him hanging on the wall inside the house this afternoon. My mother wanted me to get rid of him. But I had to get a shot first. I put him right back on the same plant he was eating before. He started eating the leaf right away. After a while I moved the leaf away from him and he got scared and stayed real still in this position. When I put the leaf back after I got the shot he continued to eat and the leaf was gone in a matter of seconds. My mom didn't want him eating up her plants anymore so I had to take him out of the yard and into a new spot by the lake in our neighborhood.
He was a pretty cool model. Didn't know what he was until I looked him up online. Thought he was a tomato hornworm but Wikipedia says he's a Tobacco Hornworm because of the seven diagonal lines on his back. They mature into a Five-Spotted Hawkmoth (Manduca quinquemaculata).
Exposure: The Hornworm was in some pretty bright early afternoon sunlight, and the background was a shaded patio (which made for the perfect black background).
Photo By: Jose O. Mediavilla