Hook-streaked grass-veneer
Crambus lathoniellus
The hook-streaked grass-veneer is a small brown moth with a white stripe running along each front wing. The stripe has a little tooth sticking out of it, like a hook. It rests in grassy places with its wings rolled tightly around its body.
Lives in
Europe and Central and Southeast Asia, in grassy places
Wingspan
2 cm (0.79 in)
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It does not bite or sting.
What does it eat?
Its caterpillars eat grasses.
How big is it?
How wide are its wings?
🍚wings as wide as 3 grains of rice in a row⚽could fly across a whole football pitch in 38 seconds
How big is Hook-streaked grass-veneer compared to YOU?
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How fast is it?
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Hook-streaked grass-veneer about 9.9 km/h (6.2 mph)
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
Its wings are only about 2 centimetres from tip to tip.
2
Its caterpillar lives in silk tunnels among the roots of grasses.
3
It flies from May to September, depending on where it lives.
you asked
Most asked questions about Hook-streaked grass-veneer
?What does the hook-streaked grass-veneer eat?
Its caterpillars eat grasses.
?Where does the hook-streaked grass-veneer live?
In grassy places in Europe and Asia.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Crambus lathoniellus
- Named by
- Zincken, 1817
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Crambidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Crambidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Crambus lathoniellus (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Svdmolen. CC BY 2.5, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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