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Hydrangea Sphinx

Darapsa versicolor

Plate III — Hydrangea Sphinx is Fig. 13
Plate III — Hydrangea Sphinx is Fig. 13

This lovely hawkmoth, which is accounted quite rare in localities, has been found very commonly at certain times in western Pennsylvania. Its larva feeds upon the wild hydrangea, which grows abundantly in deep wooded glens, along the margin of brooks. The insect ranges from New England to the mountains of the Carolinas and westward into the eastern border of the Mississippi Valley.