I’m pretty sure this is a Salt Marsh Moth (also on my front porch).
It's a long story …
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I’m pretty sure this is a Salt Marsh Moth (also on my front porch).
It's a long story ... 
what is it doing please? where does it begin and end, what is the brown item?
It was just on my front porch, not moving. (It’s not there now.) It’s abdomen is brown-orange-ish with small black spots/stripes.
I have never seen anything like that in my part of the globe. how big would you say that was? thanks for replying so quickly.
Not very big, maybe 2 inches in length?