Foster Moth

A friend had given us a caterpillar who, under our care and attentive feeding, grew quite large before forming a cocoon.... Weeks later (although astonishingly quickly according to the person from whom we received the caterpillar), it was missing and then we found on the floor in another room this enormous moth, with a wingspan of probably ten inches-- clearly he must have flown, but it was quite baffling considering it seemed that he couldn't move his wings much at all.. could he have crawled all the way there?... We carefully took him outside to the butterfly bush where I set up the tripod..