The Ambrosia Plume Moth or Ragweed Plume Moth (Adaina ambrosiae) is a moth

Moth

A moth is an insect closely related to the butterfly, both being of the order Lepidoptera. Moths form the majority of this order; there are thought to be 150,000 to 250,000 different species of moth , with thousands of species yet to be described...

 of the Pterophoridae family. It is found from California

California

California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...

 east to Florida

Florida

Florida is a state in the southeastern United States, located on the nation's Atlantic and Gulf coasts. It is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the north by Alabama and Georgia and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean. With a population of 18,801,310 as measured by the 2010 census, it...

 and north to Ontario

Ontario

Ontario is a province of Canada, located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province and second largest in total area. It is home to the nation's most populous city, Toronto, and the nation's capital, Ottawa....

.

The wingspan

Wingspan

The wingspan of an airplane or a bird, is the distance from one wingtip to the other wingtip. For example, the Boeing 777 has a wingspan of about ; and a Wandering Albatross caught in 1965 had a wingspan of , the official record for a living bird.The term wingspan, more technically extent, is...

 is about 16 mm. Adults are on wing nearly year round in the southern part of their range.

The larvae feed on Ambrosia artemissiifolia, Ambrosia acanthicarpa

Ambrosia acanthicarpa

Ambrosia acanthicarpa is a species of ragweed known by the common names flatspine burr ragweed, annual burrweed, and annual bur-sage....

, Ambrosia chamissonis

Ambrosia chamissonis

Ambrosia chamissonis is a species of ragweed known by the common names Silver Burr Ragweed, Silver Beachweed and Beach Bur....

, Ambrosia confertiflora

Ambrosia confertiflora

Ambrosia confertiflora is a species of ragweed known by the common name weakleaf bur ragweed.It is native to much of northern Mexico and the southwestern United States as far east as Kansas and Oklahoma. It is a perennial herb reaching heights between 30 centimeters and nearly two meters with...

, Ambrosia dumosa

Ambrosia dumosa

Ambrosia dumosa, the burro-weed or white bursage, is a common constituent of the creosote-bush scrub community throughout the Mojave desert of California, Nevada, and Utah and the Sonoran Desert of Arizona and northwestern Mexico....

, Ambrosia eriocentra

Ambrosia eriocentra

Ambrosia eriocentra is a species of ragweed known by the common names woolly bursage and woollyfruit burr ragweed.It is native to the southwestern United States where it grows in the deserts and surrounding ridges up to about 1700 meters in elevation. This is a rounded shrub reaching over 1.5...

, Ambrosia cumanensis, Pluchea rosea, Melanthera nivea, Helianthus annuus, Helianthus tuberosa, Xanthium strumarium

Xanthium strumarium

Xanthium strumarium is a species of annual plants belonging to the Asteraceae family...

and Cynara scolymus. They skeletonize the leaves of their host plant. They rest along the midrib of the upper leaf surface in depressions which they carve into the leaves.