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The birders were so great about identifying Lawren's bright blue bird...that I thought someone might know about this fantastic moth I saw last August.
My two older DDs and I were at the train station in Hoboken, NJ. As we were walking outside, we noticed a twig with withering green leaves lying on the sidewalk. I thought that was odd because there are no trees anywhere around there. But when we got closer--in fact right on top of the twig, pretty much, looking straight down on it, we realized that it was not a twig at all but a big, big moth. Total size about as big as my palm.
It looked EXACTLY like a twig with faded, curled leaves on it, but when you were looking down on it, you could see the shading that made the "leaves" look three-dimensional. We studied it for about 10 minutes and the kids still talk about it.
Does anyone have any idea what kind of moth this might have been and where I could find a color picture of it?
Thanks!
My two older DDs and I were at the train station in Hoboken, NJ. As we were walking outside, we noticed a twig with withering green leaves lying on the sidewalk. I thought that was odd because there are no trees anywhere around there. But when we got closer--in fact right on top of the twig, pretty much, looking straight down on it, we realized that it was not a twig at all but a big, big moth. Total size about as big as my palm.
It looked EXACTLY like a twig with faded, curled leaves on it, but when you were looking down on it, you could see the shading that made the "leaves" look three-dimensional. We studied it for about 10 minutes and the kids still talk about it.
Does anyone have any idea what kind of moth this might have been and where I could find a color picture of it?
Thanks!
Maybe you'll have better luck!! 
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