In the latest round of "musical grand-daughters," I had to drop off Stasia today at my daughter's house where she was going to enjoy yet another "sleepover at Auntie's." But before I so much as got out of the car, Kirsten came running to show us something calmly clinging to the window on the door in the garage. It was an impressively large Sphinx moth, with a wing span that exceeded four inches and a handsome brown and gray coloration. It wasn't happy about me trying to open the scallop-bottomed wings to search for eyespots, but it let me do this necessary identification work long enough to confirm that it lacked those diagnostic predator scarers and instead just carried a touch of black on its hind wings. When I returned home, kidless, I grabbed my newest version of the Peterson Field Guide to Moths of Northeastern North America, the one by David Beadle and Seabrooke Leckie, and quickly tracked down the ID. It's known as the Modest Sphinx, and Pachysphinx modesta gets its species name, both common and scientific from, according to BugGuide, the fact that when the moth is "seen facing up on a wall, the bottom half of the moth is dark, as though 'modestly covered' by a cloak or shawl."