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"Every year around this time these medium sized moths venture into our home. I preceive them to be totally harmless, but having a moth land on your nose while you are trying to fall asleep can be unsettling so I usually catch them and release them back to the great outdoors that is Oakland. I was actually able to receive aide with this idenification from a professor Jerry Powell PhD from U.C. Berkeley. He added to my description ""this is the armyworm, long known as Pseudaletia unipuncta, now called Mythimna unipuncta (family Noctuidae). The larvae are general feeders, and the moths occur in weedy, disturbed areas. Exaeretia (what I orginally thought this moth was) is a much smaller moth, slender forewings that are tan with the base narrowly dark. I would not expect it to show up in an urban area. My hats off to the UC and Professor Powell for helping out an amateur naturalist. He also recommends obtaining a copy of ""Moths of Western North America (Powell & Opler, 2009, U. California Press)"
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"Every year around this time these medium sized moths venture into our home. I preceive them to be totally harmless, but having a moth land on your nose while you are trying to fall asleep can be unsettling so I usually catch them and release them back to the great outdoors that is Oakland. I was actually able to receive aide with this idenification from a professor Jerry Powell PhD from U.C. Berkeley. He added to my description ""this is the armyworm, long known as Pseudaletia unipuncta, now called Mythimna unipuncta (family Noctuidae). The larvae are general feeders, and the moths occur in weedy, disturbed areas. Exaeretia (what I orginally thought this moth was) is a much smaller moth, slender forewings that are tan with the base narrowly dark. I would not expect it to show up in an urban area. My hats off to the UC and Professor Powell for helping out an amateur naturalist. He also recommends obtaining a copy of ""Moths of Western North America (Powell & Opler, 2009, U. California Press)"
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"Every year around this time these medium sized moths venture into our home. I preceive them to be totally harmless, but having a moth land on your nose while you are trying to fall asleep can be unsettling so I usually catch them and release them back to the great outdoors that is Oakland. I was actually able to receive aide with this idenification from a professor Jerry Powell PhD from U.C. Berkeley. He added to my description ""this is the armyworm, long known as Pseudaletia unipuncta, now called Mythimna unipuncta (family Noctuidae). The larvae are general feeders, and the moths occur in weedy, disturbed areas. Exaeretia (what I orginally thought this moth was) is a much smaller moth, slender forewings that are tan with the base narrowly dark. I would not expect it to show up in an urban area. My hats off to the UC and Professor Powell for helping out an amateur naturalist. He also recommends obtaining a copy of ""Moths of Western North America (Powell & Opler, 2009, U. California Press)"
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Nocturnal porch moth, head to wingtip was very roughly 30 mm.
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Hodges#10438 http://bugguide.net/node/view/1049077#1857790
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First of the season at my porchlight.
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Don't know how these common names occur, but bugguide.net lists its common name as Armyworm. Hodges #10438 Under palm leaf during day
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Found it this morning by my porch light. I warmed him up with my hand. No I didn't kill him or touch his wings. I merely picked him up from the ground with a stick(very carefully) and held him in my hand while I tried taking pictures of him.
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Found it this morning by my porch light. I warmed him up with my hand. No I didn't kill him or touch his wings. I merely picked him up from the ground with a stick(very carefully) and held him in my hand while I tried taking pictures of him.
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Found it this morning by my porch light. I warmed him up with my hand. No I didn't kill him or touch his wings. I merely picked him up from the ground with a stick(very carefully) and held him in my hand while I tried taking pictures of him.
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Found it this morning by my porch light. I warmed him up with my hand. No I didn't kill him or touch his wings. I merely picked him up from the ground with a stick(very carefully) and held him in my hand while I tried taking pictures of him.
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I found this guy while I was walking. I almost stepped on him. I made sure he had a nice safe and camouflaged space.
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I found this guy while I was walking. I almost stepped on him. I made sure he had a nice safe and camouflaged space.
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Brief description of what you observed
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I believe this is a white-speck. Not totally sure though.