Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Laurentine Idia (Idia laurenti) is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found from central New York, south to the mountains of North Carolina. There is probably one generation per year. Larvae have been reared on dead leaves of cherry. 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.