Photo by Drees. They are active at night and spend the day under debris on the soil away from light.
Adults are dingy, grayish-brown moths marked with light or dark spots on the wings.
They have a wing spread of 1 to 2 inches. The army cutworm overwinters in the mountains of west Texas as adults. It can be very numerous and a nuisance in buildings. This is a generic term and the moths are often in the family Noctuidae which includes cutworms, armyworms, bollworm and many other species. The winter is spent in the larval stage.