What is this strange bug? Found in a house being built in Ohio. Really it looks like bird poop from a distance. Then it looks like a snail, but fuzzy like a caterpillar. Only, it then took flight. Yes, it flew away! Sara
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Their bird poop camouflage is presumably an adaptation that reduces the likelihood that a bird or other predator will notice the moth and think of it as something edible. Tom