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Small gray hopper-like - Alsophila pometaria - female

Small gray hopper-like - Alsophila pometaria - Female
Pittsboro, Chatham County, North Carolina, USA
December 31, 2013
Size: Quarter inch long
Multiple specimens showed up on my doorframe, either attracted to the porch light or trying to get inside where it's warm. The temperatures are dropping below freezing at night. I would put the body approximately a quarter inch long, maybe a little larger, and the legs a bit more than that. Location is a large garden surrounded by mixed woods.

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a wingless female moth of sorts
maybe this one

 
That would make sense!
We had the males attracted to the porchlight a week ago--just never occurred to me they'd be so sexually dimorphic! Thank you!

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