This thing surprised me when I zoomed in on it with my camera. It looked like a strange prehistoric animal walking down an ice covered hillside with an iceberg in the distance.
In reality this is a tiny insect that I believe is a kind of weevil. I searched for an image like it and discovered that there are more than 3,000 species of weevils in North America. Although I found images for dozens of weevils such the maize weevil, rice weevil, clover leaf weevil and cocklebur weevil, I was unable to find an image of a weevil with a fuzzy brown body like this one.
I thought it was a moth as it flew and landed on the hood of my truck. After capturing only two photos, it flew away, and I could not relocate it.
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