Can you identify this critter ? (halfly OT, found it near the pond)

I wanted to pick up this little twig the other day, but it moved... it
turned out to be a butterfly/moth.

Never seen something like this before, and I'm not sure it's native.
Perhaps it escaped from a house somewhere ?

Nature at it's best eh :-)

(250 Kb download, but worth it I think ! )

http://www.wide-o.net/summerpond2003/critter.jpg

"Theo van Daele" wrote in news:P7bTa.26431$F92.3146
@afrodite.telenet-ops.be:

A quick look at the site below makes me think it might be a Schinia Snowi,
member of the order Noctuidae, but I could well be wrong.

Take a look at
http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/d...s/mothsusa.htm
its probably the best place to try and identify you critter.

Good luck
ANO

Theo van Daele wrote:
I wanted to pick up this little twig the other day, but it moved... it
turned out to be a butterfly/moth.

Never seen something like this before, and I'm not sure it's native.
Perhaps it escaped from a house somewhere ?

Nature at it's best eh :-)

(250 Kb download, but worth it I think ! )

http://www.wide-o.net/summerpond2003/critter.jpg




Great photo!

--
Bonnie
NJ
http://home.earthlink.net/~maebe43/

Wow, talk about camouflage!





On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 13:38:55 GMT, "Theo van Daele"
wrote:

I wanted to pick up this little twig the other day, but it moved... it
turned out to be a butterfly/moth.

Never seen something like this before, and I'm not sure it's native.
Perhaps it escaped from a house somewhere ?

Nature at it's best eh :-)

(250 Kb download, but worth it I think ! )

http://www.wide-o.net/summerpond2003/critter.jpg