Sweet!
Looks like a sphinx moth to me!

Yay, looks like we were in the right family (Noctuidae), looks like an underwing moth. I will look through my book of Noctuidae and see if I can match it while you're on Bugguide.

@sooby
very much

Looks like Noctua pronuba to me, the large yellow underwing moth. The larva is a cutworm.

http://mothphotographersgroup....
http://www.lepiforum.de/webbbs...

Edit: I looked to see if there was anything else similar, and Noctua comes (lesser yellow underwing) looks similar - the easiest differentiating feature is the black line on the yellow lower wing, if it's there it doesn't show in your picture but you may be able to check when it moves around:

http://pnwmoths.biol.wwu.edu/b...

Reading some more, there's also a size difference between the two as well as the black "dash" on on the underwing. I think it is more likely Noctua pronuba.

! We get these and they're pretty!

Patience is often its' own reward. Does look like the larger N pronuba... too cool, Toni. Good eye Sue.

You did it, Toni!

and Sue, thanks to you, we now actually know what it is!

Some other related moths in the Noctuidae would have similar looking pupae, and it is a large family, see:

http://www.butterfliesandmoths...

So not every lookalike pupa we all find is going to be this exact same moth species necessarily. No reason, then, for anyone else who finds one not to incubate it like Toni did if you want to try and narrow yours down more precisely