# Can you identify this caterpillar?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-this-caterpillar/374806
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [October 1, 2006, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-this-caterpillar/374806 "2006-10-01T03:55:43Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2006, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-this-caterpillar/374806/1 "2006-10-01T03:55:43Z")
Found inching along inside a barn (central South Carolina). The orange blur in the top left corner of photo #5 is the nose of a kitty, which is how I discovered the bug.
And later one of the ducks almost had a heart attack when it saw it. I’m sure she was thinking, “Oh, boy! Dessert!” (I shooed her away from it, and prolonged its life a few minutes, maybe.)
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### Author:  [@Beaucarnea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beaucarnea)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2006, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-this-caterpillar/374806/2 "2006-10-01T04:26:41Z")
I believe it is a [Sphinx moth](http://www.biology.ucr.edu/personal/MACphotos/arthropods/sphinx%20moth.jpg)[caterpillar.](http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/ent/clinic/Bugofwk/965012/sphinx2b.jpg)
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### Author:  [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2006, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-this-caterpillar/374806/3 "2006-10-01T04:34:31Z")
I believe it. Thanks!