Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Boreal Apamea or Mullein Apamea (Apamea verbascoides) is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found from Newfoundland to North Carolina, northwest to Saskatchewan. The wingspan is 36-43 mm. Adults are on wing from June to September depending on the location. There is one generation per year. The larvae probably feed on grasses and sedges.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 (about ten times the number of species of butterfly), with thousands of species yet to be described.