What is this please?

Whosecoat

Could somebody please identify this for me? This year I just had a few on my swett williams, but last year they devastated my pinks. I kept finding them in unopened buds, with the flower bud eaten away and this fat caterpillar snuggly sitting in the bud casing. I've searched online for cutworms, caterpillars and sawflys and can find nothing like it.

Any help would be appreciated.

 

Thanks

 

 

Logan

It's a angel shades moth it also can be brown

Dovefromabove

You beat me to it Logan, that's what I was going to say.  It's a beautiful moth

Whosecoat

Thanks for that...really helpful...I'd been searching for ages!!  Maybe I might be able to save next years pinks by  putting fleece covers on them over night, since they are mostly in containers?   The sweet willliams they are welcome to, there were more than enough flowers to go around.  Curiuosly though, when I looked up this moth on Wikipedia, there was a long list of its food plants that claimed to be complete but dianthus was not among them. 

Dovefromabove

Think they probably don't read the books .......