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The White-speck
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White- speck
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The White-speck
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At exterior light.
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"At porchlight. I know this as the ""Armyworm Moth""; typically common for much of the year. Here's the MPG page for the species."
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Mythimna unipuncta (Haworth, 1809)
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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.