Making it appear even more menacing, as if its five inch length wasn’t sufficient, was a large, black horn on its tail that gained it the informal appellation of “the hornworm from Hell.”
Making it appear even more menacing, as if its five inch length wasn’t sufficient, was a large, black horn on its tail that gained it the informal appellation of “the hornworm from Hell.”
Sandwiched among other useful guidebooks to the flora and fauna of the area was found a copy of The Swift Guide to the Butterflies of Mexico and Central America.
Every time I travel abroad, I find that I return having learned something new. Such is the case with my recently concluded visit to the Central American nation of Panama for a photographic expedition.
I was personally so thrilled at being given the opportunity to see and digiscope an image of this secretive little creature that I didn’t even bother to straighten the camera before depressing the shutter.