small white moth - Prodoxus decipiens Pelham, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, USA Size: 8mm head-to-wingtip
Two of these small white moths apparently expupated in my bathroom, which is loaded with fungi and rotting, fungus-bearing wood (at least till it warms up and I can evict the live beetles to the unheated shop). They could possibly have come out of some dried New Hampshire yucca stalks or a section of sotol stalk from New Mexico -- or one of my sweaters!!
Images of this individual: tag all Contributed by Jim McClarin on 23 March, 2006 - 8:02pm Last updated 18 May, 2007 - 5:13am |