Strange camouflage flying insect

[narrowboater]

Hi
Can any one identify this insect. We have two in the house, they are about 2cm long with a 2.5 cm wing span and very stick like and when resting on items they are in the shape of a T. They take the background colour of the item they are resting on. At the moment we have one an oatmeal colour and the other cream.
We have not seen them fly but they do appear in different places so we assume that they fly. They are very stationary and move very little. No picture available at present,

[JRsbugs]

HI, welcome to WAB.

They sound like Plume Moths to me. Moths usually go for camouflage so that's probably what they are doing on the same colour background.

I would say you have two different species.

Plume moth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Janet

[Hedera]

They may be Plume moths, very pretty markings on wings?

[narrowboater]

Hi Janet

Thank you very much, we have never seen these before but you are spot on

Ian

[narrowboater]

Hi Janet

Can you tel me where these come from

Thanks
Ian

[JRsbugs]

Originally Posted by narrowboater

Hi Janet

Can you tel me where these come from

Thanks
Ian

Hi Ian, we have them here. Check out the family on ukmoths...

UKMoths