I'd like to identify this insect. What species is it?

 

You don't necessarily need to say anything else about it. I can look it up myself.

There are Im shure thousands of unidentified insects out there. One that I saw in my yard flew in circles then flew away in up and down motions. Kinda like it was swimming through the air,

OK, bad wording. I meant I couldn't identify it. Considering how crowded it is here, and how homogenized nature is, I don't think it very likely that I'd stumble upon an insect no one's ever named in the middle of a large city.

It's a plume moth, family Pterophoridae

Thanks!

Yeah, I was going to say it was a moth from its physical structures, such as the fuzziness.

I've played with moths enough times in my life that I consider them household pets not pests.

I think it was the back and antennae that gave me the impression it was a moth.