#pyralid

[onenicebugperday]

@ghostblade13767 submitted: Any idea on who this friend is? There's a whole lot invading my bedroom just now. Location is Scotland

Suuure they're a bee moth, Aphomia sociella :)

[onenicebugperday]

@annasinthewalls submitted: This friend, caught on camera on my window frame, woke me up by /landing on my face/ ...the audacity. The darker parts of the wings were reflective, it just didn't show up with my camera's angle. (located in CT)

Ooooh you got a moth kiss! How lucky. Looks like a yellow-fringed dolichomia moth, Hypsopygia olinalis, which is a pyralid moth. :)

[drhoz]

#526 - Spectrotrota fimbrialis

Odd little Pyralids - their posture is peculiar enough - largely around the neck and shoulders - that I wasn't even sure it was a moth, and thought it might actually be a Ricaniid planthopper.

Baldivis and my porch. I have no info on the diet.

[drhoz]

#396 - Couchgrass Webworm?

Faveria tritalis, apparently, but like the Withered Wing and Carbon-black Snout Moths earlier, not recorded from Western Australia (at least according to online resources. It's entirely possible they have a crateful at the Ag. Dept. waiting for ID.)

A minor lawn pest.

[drhoz]

#395 - Meal Moth

Pyralis farinalis. Pretty much the archetypal Pyralid, and a worldwide pest of stored grain and other foodstuff.

I'd originally thought it was another Pyralid Snout Moth, Arescoptera idiotypa - that genus apparently means "Withered Wing". But I was thankfully corrected on Flickr

Arescoptera wasn't listed as a Western Australian species on Australian Lepidoptera, and I somehow failed to notice the much more likely possibility - possibly because that webpage focuses on native species.

Wellard, Perth

[drhoz]

#394 - Carbon-black Stericta

I thought IDing this tiny jet-black moth was going to be difficult, then stumbled across an ID anyway. Stericta carbonalis, a Pyralid.

My laundry, Perth