Yellow-Headed Cutworm Moth
This moth from July 10, 2016 is pretty well camouflaged. It would be even better if it were on actual bark, and not on a dead log that the bark had sloughed off of.
The reddish-brown forewings with the white band along the trailing edge is unusual enough that I think the best match is the adult moth of the Yellow-Headed Cutworm, Apamea amputatrix
The caterpillar is one of the garden-pest cutworms, and going by the host list will eat about anything that anyone cares to plant. Although, you know what is really weird about this? Here we have a moth, whose common name is clearly based on what the caterpillar looks like, but when I go online searching for pictures of the caterpillar of Apamea amputatrix, I don’t find any. All I get are pictures of the moths!
I guess that when people find the caterpillars, their first impulse is to squish them, not take pictures of them.
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Keep the moths and breed them so you can get photos of the kids?
It’s too late to breed it now, of course, but yeah, that would have worked.