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Sandy Schwinn 20-Aug-2009 02:45
Mark,

I visited your galleries this evening. You have a lot of great shots. I'll be returning for help with IDing bugs in my BA backyard.

Sandy
Olle Pellmyr 28-Mar-2008 23:15
Mark,

found an image of yours on BugGuide labelled "Tegeticula yuccasella". Yucca moths have been my main research organism for quite some time, and I revised the yucca moths, so I'll try to help with ID. Your specimen is a bogus yucca moth, a non-pollinator whose larvae develop in the main flowering stalk. It is either Prodoxus quinquepunctellus or P. decipiens; the two species mostly separated along an E-W axis, but you live in the contact zone. A final ID would require a check of the genitalia. I hope this may be of interest to you.