No feeding just sitting. (How would one say that: resting, being still, not moving? I've always wondered.)

I dislike 'resting' and prefer 'perching posture' since often the postures look more like extreme yoga poses than like repose and obviously have deep behavioral/morphological correlatives (have waited months to use that word! meaning that markings, etc., work together with position in space, relative to light source, etc.). Clearly, though, just because something is immobile doesn't mean it has yet assumed its stereotypical perching posture (and until it has, better described as being 'at rest'). This applies very commonly to adults, but also to at least some caterpillars.

That was pretty complicated (for me).
In the future when writing or speaking of insects being very still, you suggest I use the term 'at rest'?
I never knew how to word it (They aren't sitting!) but have always wondered.
Thank you.

MJ,
Happy to make you smile!
Unless clearly in a stereotypic perching posture (as evidenced, often, by imperturbability (another smile?), a neutral term such as 'at rest on' or 'on' or 'motionless on' works well. My only point being that it is good to recognize and not obscure the often amazing behavioral aspects of perching/body positioning which clearly work hand-in-glove with markings and other body features. Moths newly come to rest at lights often take some time to assume the perching posture (up to that point only being at rest). The difference can be astounding or apparently nil, depending on species. Now take out your blue-books!