A seemingly random tree branch has stumped internet users looking for the moth hidden in plain sight. The image, shared on Reddit by user u/crabbysammy, shows a mottled branch with a moth blending ...

Egg-laying Manduca sexta female. The moth is bending its abdomen to the underside of the leaf to lay an egg. On the leaf at the top of the image, a deposited egg can already be seen on the left edge.

Tobacco hornworm moth, Manduca sexta, seeks nectar from an filter-paper flower soaked in some chemicals from the scent of its favorite nectar source, the sacred datura flower, Datura wrightii.