Inlaid grass-veneer
Crambus pascuella
The inlaid grass-veneer is a small brownish moth with a shining white stripe along each front wing. When it rests on a grass stem, it rolls its wings tight around its body. The edges of its wings shimmer like metal.
Lives in
Europe and Asia Minor, in grassy places
Wingspan
2 to 2.4 cm (0.79 to 0.94 in)
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It cannot bite or sting.
What does it eat?
Its caterpillars eat different grasses, especially meadow grass.
How big is it?
How wide are its wings?
🍚wings as wide as 4 grains of rice in a row⚽could fly across a whole football pitch in 34 seconds
How big is Inlaid grass-veneer compared to YOU?
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How fast is it?
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Inlaid grass-veneer about 11 km/h (6.8 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
The white stripe on its wing looks as if it was inlaid, like a pattern set into wood.
2
Its back wings are grey and paler at the edge.
3
It flies from May to September, depending on where it lives.
you asked
Most asked questions about Inlaid grass-veneer
?What does the inlaid grass-veneer eat?
Its caterpillars eat grasses, especially meadow grass.
?How big is the inlaid grass-veneer?
Its wings measure 20 to 24 millimetres from tip to tip.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Crambus pascuella
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Crambidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Crambidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Crambus pascuella (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 picture taken by Olaf Leillinger. CC BY-SA 2.5, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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