Another new acquaintance

[JBW]

[Geoff F]

Yes, certainly an interesting creature which you have photographed well.

I assume it is a moth species.

[Dave Humphries]

Very good Brian,

[bnnrcn]

It looks nice and fragile

[Shadowman]

Nicely done.

[JBW]

Yes, certainly an interesting creature which you have photographed well.

I assume it is a moth species.

So am I but as to the group?

[JBW]

Very good Brian,

And I even cloned out some cluttery stuff in the foreground.

[JBW]

It looks nice and fragile

and yet it survives the storms

[JBW]

Nicely done.

I am getting better at finding odd ways to set up my tripod without scaring the critters.

[RandyRFJP]

Brian, I think a good place to start in identifying the moth would be within the Erebidae family. That family includes "snout moths." Your lateral view of the moth shows a long structure extending from the anterior, "mouth," area. If there were, in fact, two long extensions coming from near the moth's "mouth area," one on each side, those would be elongated labial palps that look like a "snout."

[JBW]

Brian, I think a good place to start in identifying the moth would be within the Erebidae family. That family includes "snout moths." Your lateral view of the moth shows a long structure extending from the anterior, "mouth," area. If there were, in fact, two long extensions coming from near the moth's "mouth area," one on each side, those would be elongated labial palps that look like a "snout."

it certainly fits in there somewhere