The Sphingidae of Louisiana

Please help me improve this site by sending sighting data (species; location [county]; date) to Bill Oehlke. Images are also greatly appreciated and will be used and credited (with permission) on county pages. I will attempt to identify any Sphingidae larvae or adults that are unknown to you.

Special thanks goes to Vernon A. Brou for his extensive research and records regarding the Sphingidae of Louisiana.

NEW! Visit http://entomology.lsu.edu/lsam/Brou.htm for links to many of Vernon's published articles.

Below are links to parish by parish pictoral checklists.

Only those parishes/cities indicated in red are currently active.

Please help me improve this site by sending sighting data (species; location [county]; date) to Bill Oehlke.

Other pictoral checklists will be posted as sightings arrive.

Enjoy some of nature's wonderments, giant silk moth cocoons. These cocoons are for sale winter and fall. Beautiful Saturniidae moths will emerge the following spring and summer. Read Actias luna rearing article. Additional online help available.

Eggs of many North American species are offered during the spring and summer. Occasionally summer Actias luna and summer Antheraea polyphemus cocoons are available. Shipping to US destinations is done from with in the US.

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This page is brought to you by Bill Oehlke and the WLSS. Pages are on space rented from Bizland. If you would like to become a "Patron of the Sphingidae Site", contact Bill.

Please send sightings/images to Bill. I will do my best to respond to requests for identification help.

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