Upon closer inspection, I realized that the leaf was a really large moth. (Like butterfly large. Sorry there's nothing in my photos to give an idea of scale. This guy's wingspan was about 3" across!) A little bit scary actually, though I don't really fear moths, except for what they tend to do to my favorite sweaters when I'm not looking.
Great camouflage for the woods. Ah, nature. You know what you are doing.
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I believe this is a Brown Scoopwing, Calledapteryx dryopterata.
It's definitely not a sphinx moth of any variety.
Ah! Thank you for the correction!
we saw the same moth today we thought it was a leaf at first very big and colourful underwings its sitting on our right now very docile been there 8 hours
Brown scoopwings have no colorful underwings. This photo shows a blinded sphinx moth - based on the wing markings and shape. If it was fully opened you would see the pink areas and the "eye" markings.
So I was right?!
:)
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