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It's a medium brownish/grayish moth, about 1 to 1-1/2 inch wingspan, with dark brown spots closer to the body and white spots closer to the wing tips, underside is solid brown/gray.
Thanks for any info on if it needs to be controlled.
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I'm sorry, but the picture is too small to show enough detail for me to offer anything like an accurate ID, and it doesn't enlarge when I click on it.
I'll make a wild guess and say it's a member of the Skipper family, but that's about as close as I can get. It's a huge family, so that's really not helping you much, even if my guess is correct.
I'll make a second wild guess and say it's either one of the Duskywings or maybe one of the Sootywings.
Finally, as one last stab-in-the-dark, I'll say it looks a whole lot ... to me, at least ... like Horace's Duskywing (Erynnis horatius.) Just as a side note, Horace's Duskywing is a butterfly, not a moth.
One of the complicating factors of not being able to see enough detail in your photo was that I couldn't see the antennae to determine whether your insect was a moth or butterfly. (It made it necessary to spend a long time looking at photos, and a lot of "hmmmm, maybe's" on my part!
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You can see some pictures of Horace's Duskywing at [url=https://www.duke.edu/~jspippen/butterflies/horacesduskywing.htm]this site[/url].
There's also a nice gallery of Missouri butterflies and moths [url=https://www.butterfliesandmoths.org/map?_dcs=1&ds=26]here[/url].
I'll make a wild guess and say it's a member of the Skipper family, but that's about as close as I can get. It's a huge family, so that's really not helping you much, even if my guess is correct.
I'll make a second wild guess and say it's either one of the Duskywings or maybe one of the Sootywings.
Finally, as one last stab-in-the-dark, I'll say it looks a whole lot ... to me, at least ... like Horace's Duskywing (Erynnis horatius.) Just as a side note, Horace's Duskywing is a butterfly, not a moth.
One of the complicating factors of not being able to see enough detail in your photo was that I couldn't see the antennae to determine whether your insect was a moth or butterfly. (It made it necessary to spend a long time looking at photos, and a lot of "hmmmm, maybe's" on my part!
)You can see some pictures of Horace's Duskywing at [url=https://www.duke.edu/~jspippen/butterflies/horacesduskywing.htm]this site[/url].
There's also a nice gallery of Missouri butterflies and moths [url=https://www.butterfliesandmoths.org/map?_dcs=1&ds=26]here[/url].
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