Buff Tip Moth

So here is the Buff Tip Moth I looked after from finding it as a big fat caterpillar in my garden in September 2020 and protecting it from predators in my butterfly farm all over winter. It is soooo cute, its little face, it looks like it has eyelashes. You can see its pseudo pupil in its eye like its looking at you and it has a really good grip with its feet. I read one of its caterpillar foodplants are blackthorn so that is what I put it on when I released it. It was very tame and didn&fly off but I checked the next day if it was still there and it wasn&It was quite heavy too with its big abdomen, I am surprised it could fly. Some female moths stay close to their foodplants so they can lay eggs easily as they cannot fly, I thought this one might be a female.