Elbow-striped grass-veneer
The elbow-striped grass-veneer is a small moth that lives in grassy places. When it rests, it wraps its wings tightly around its body and looks like a little stick. Its front wings have two lines bent like elbows.
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Fun facts
It flies at dusk from July to October.
Its caterpillars spend the winter in silk tunnels at the bottom of grass, hidden with their own droppings.
Sometimes a caterpillar leaves its tunnel and curls up tightly along a grass stem.
It looks very much like two of its cousins, and you need to look closely at the wing lines to tell them apart.
Most asked questions about Elbow-striped grass-veneer
?What does the elbow-striped grass-veneer eat?
Its caterpillars eat grasses, especially sheep's fescue.
?Where can I see the elbow-striped grass-veneer?
In dry grassy places, dunes and gardens in late summer and autumn.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Agriphila geniculea
- Named by
- Haworth, 1811
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Crambidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Crambidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Africa
Where the facts come from
- Agriphila geniculea (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 Hectonichus. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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