Mid-Atlantic Gardening: Birds of the mid-Atlantic (and other critters too), 4 by Gitagal

Gitagal wrote:
If I may--I have a question about an insect--which I encountered today.
Hope IT also qualifies as a "critter.

came across this big, long, gray patterned insect attached to a leaf. 1-1/2" long.
It was attached to a leaf on the soil in my bed. It seemed "dead"--as it was not
moving at all.
I picked up the leaf and took it to my picnic table and laid it down. NO signs of life!

Then I poked at it a bit--and it came to life. It spread its gossamer wings and
was trying to move around--but it was just going in a circle. May have been injured?
It even fluttered a bit as if trying to fly away. I took several pictures of it.

My thought were that it may have been near dying--having laid its eggs?
At one point--it fell to the ground and was trying to get under the leg of my heavy
patio chair.
I finally scooped it up with some leaves and put it under my bushes.
It can do what ever it has to do there--even die, if that is the next step in its life.

Here are some pictures. david--you are always good at ID'ing bugs.

1 &2--The gray bug as I found it. Still...lifeless...

3--After I put it on my table and gave it a nudge

4--Wings fully spread

5--Real close-up of it from behind.

What is it??? Thanks, Gita