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Sasha had been watching these tawny owlets for several days in a park near his home.

The gaudy creature, often positioned head down on the plants as it feasts away, is the brown-hooded owlet moth’s larva.

For several weeks, the owlet would return to Gillard’s home to feed from the roof, where the young Michigander had left food.

Wallace’s owlet is named after a naturalist who frequently used the n-word in his writings.

Of that owl family, only one survived—a young owlet.