It has a wasp-like abdomen/body and thick, black spidery legs (think tarantula):
It has very large, ugly, mottled grey-blue wings:
The pictures don't give a good sense of it's size, but I'd say it's about the size of a 65 watt lightbulb. It is the creepiest thing I've ever seen, and I've seen creepy. Is it a hybrid? A mutant? An important link in the evolutionary chain? Even the lizards are staying away.
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Probably you've figured this out by now, but that is a recently hatched moth...its abdomen is large and it's wings are small because the stuff in its abdomen has to be pumped out into its wings to expand them. You can even see the progression a bit in your pictures.
Stacey
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