Backyard and Beyond

Starting out from Brooklyn, an amateur naturalist explores our world.

As John Burroughs said, “The place to observe nature is where you are.”

Interior Moth

An old frenemy returns to the apartment stairwell. Meal moth, Pyralis farinalis.

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    […] Friends! Are you troubled by little gray-black flies that, upon closer inspection (don’t be shy, get a little closer, the details are remarkable) look rather moth-like with their hairy wings and bodies? Do you wonder why they seem to be hanging around your sinks? Or, like this one, in the hallway, just waiting for my defenses to be breached? […]

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    […] first identified the Meal moths who hang out in the hallway of my building using the NWF’s Field Guide to Insects and Spiders of […]

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