Moth Monday: Just When I Think I’m Out, They Pull Me Back In

Monday, December 1st, 2008

I found this leaf mimic moth in my garage a couple of days ago (2008-11-29). On a tree, it would have been practically invisible, but on the white walls of my garage it stuck out like A Thinkpad in an Apple store.

Leaf-like brown moth on white wall

Tentatively, it has been ID’d as 6981 – Prochoerodes forfocaria, though I’m not absolutely certain of that.
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