Nigel Cattlin / Tobacco hornworm / hawkmoth (Manduca sexta) pupa on soil, a serious Tobacco (Nicotiana sp) pest.

Nigel Cattlin / Tobacco hornworm (Manduca sexta) caterpillar feeding on damaged Tobacco (Nicotiana sp) leaf. USA.

Eladio Fernandez / Tobacco hornworm caterpillar (Manduca sexta) Cuba.

Robert Thompson / Tobacco hornworm moth (Manduca sexta) caterpillar on stem. Arizona, USA. July.

MYN / Clay Bolt / Lettered Spinx Moth (Deidamia inscripta) Southern Appalachians, South Carolina, United States, May. Meetyourneighbours.net project

Rolf Nussbaumer / Carolina sphinx moth (Manduca sexta) close up of caterpillar on plant, Dinero, Lake Corpus Christi, South Texas, USA.

MYN / Clay Bolt / Caterpillar larva of Lettered spinx moth (Deidamia inscriptum) on Sourwood leaves (Oxydendrum arboreum) South Carolina, USA, May. meetyourneighbours.net project

Rupert Barrington / Parasites {Cotesia sp} on the Tobacco hornworm, caterpillar larva of Carolina sphinx moth {Manduca sexta} USA

Doug Wechsler / Carolina sphinx moth {Manduca sexta} parasitized by brachonid wasp pupae, USA.