The Sphingidae of Nebraska

Below the tables of scientific names, there is a listing of common names.

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Western Nebraska Counties

Visit individual county checklists with thumbnails (adult moths) and links to species files. Only those counties indicated in red are currently active.

Sioux Dawes Box Butte Scotts Bluff Banner Morrill Kimball Cheyenne

Sheridan Garden Deuel Cherry Grant Thomas Hooker

Arthur MacPherson Logan Keith Perkins Lincoln Chase Hayes

Dundy Hitchcock Frontier Red Willow Gosper Furnas Phelps Harlan

Keya Paha Brown Rock Loup Blaine Custer Dawson

Eastern Nebraska Counties

Visit individual county checklists with thumbnails (adult moths) and links to species files. Only those counties indicated in red are currently active.

Boyd Holt Garfield Wheeler Sherman Howard Buffalo Hall Kearney Adams Franklin Webster

Knox Cedar Dixon Dakota Antelope Pierce Wayne Thurston Boone Madison

Stanton Cuming Burt Nance Merrick Platte Colfax Dodge Washington Douglas

Hamilton Polk York Butler Seward Saunders Lancaster Sarpy Cass Otoe

Clay Nuckolls Fillmore Thayer Saline Jefferson Gage Johnson Nemaha Pawnee Richardson

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Hyles lineata, Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska,
October 2, 2011, courtesy of Amy Dohmen.

Eastern Nebraska Counties

Visit individual county checklists with thumbnails (larvae) and links to species files. Only those counties indicated in red are currently active.

Boyd Holt Garfield Wheeler Sherman Howard Buffalo Hall Kearney Adams Franklin Webster

Knox Cedar Dixon Dakota Antelope Pierce Wayne Thurston Boone Madison

Stanton Cuming Burt Nance Merrick Platte Colfax Dodge Washington Douglas

Hamilton Polk York Butler Seward Saunders Lancaster Sarpy Cass Otoe

Clay Nuckolls Fillmore Thayer Saline Jefferson Gage Johnson Nemaha Pawnee Richardson

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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Mature Eumorpha achemon larva, September 12, 2006, Lincoln, Nebraska, via image by Sarah Landis.

Ceratomia undulosa adult, June 19, 2009, Perkins County, via image by Suzi Bullock

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