Once again, the kitchen porch lights have been good to me, to say nothing of providing the goad that ensures continuing natural history education. Over the years, I've spotted these intriguing little metal-marked moths, and while I learned they were the adult phase of a kind of inchworm caterpillar known as a Looper, I didn't go much beyond that. It's laziness, I know, but I can't know everything. Still, I could come closer, and when I saw this Looper, I decided that it was high time I put at least a subspecies of ignorance to flight. So I pulled out the books and the Internet tools and, after a little enjoyable toil, decided that the configuration and shape of the silvery spots known collectively as the stigma, along with the bronze sheen, made this moth a commoner known as the Common Looper. It's a good place to start on my journey into the Subfamily Plusiinae.