the Flappita Moth

Although a field guide would identify this as the wing of a white-lined sphinx moth, at our house it is one of the "Flappita moths". Those creatures that are attracted to your reading lamp and go flappita, flappita all around the light and make you crazy. This visitor chose to rest on the bricks of the fireplace before finding his way back outside. He started off in the computer room, we lured him to the open door on the deck by making a light path for him to follow. By turning on lights in the next room and turning off the one in the room we and he were in, we lead him through the house and out, with the needed portrait shoot in the middle.  Neat creature.