Shari Vialpando/Las Cruces Sun-News, AP
Eric Carrasco, 9, of Fort Selden, N.M. closely watches as a White-Lined Sphinx caterpillar crawls on Thursday across a board in front of a home in the Soledad Canyon area where thousands of the creepy-crawlers have emerged. The caterpillars will soon burrow underground where they will transform into sphinx moths.

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