In the late afternoon I noticed an insect on the window screen and something about it made me look closer. It looked like a wasp, and it wasn’t until I got very close that I realized my instinct had been correct, it was actually a clearwing moth. It is one of the most convincing wasp mimics I’ve ever encountered and it only revealed itself by the feathery antennae and fuzzy body.
Kelly Brenner
Kelly Brenner is a naturalist, writer and artist based in Seattle. She is the author of THE NATURALIST AT HOME: Projects for Discovering the Hidden World Around Us and NATURE OBSCURA: A City’s Hidden Natural World from Mountaineers Books, a finalist for the Washington State Book Awards and Pacific Northwest Book Awards. She writes articles about natural history and has bylines in Crosscut, Popular Science, National Wildlife Magazine and others. On the side she writes fiction.
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Kelly BrennerJuly 24, 2023