Grass webworm moth
The grass webworm is a small moth that does everything at night. Mating, laying eggs, hatching, eating and growing all happen in the dark. Its caterpillars live in little tubes of grass leaves lined with silk.
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Fun facts
The eggs hatch after only 4 to 6 days.
A grown-up moth lives for only about 13 days.
Its caterpillar grows to about 2 centimetres and can be green or brown, sometimes a little pink.
In some places it is a pest of lawns and fields.
Most asked questions about Grass webworm moth
?What does the grass webworm eat?
Its caterpillars eat grasses, including lawn grass, rice and maize.
?Is the grass webworm moth harmful?
Not to people, but its caterpillars can damage lawns and pastures.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Herpetogramma licarsisalis
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Crambidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Crambidae
- Lives on
- Africa, Asia, Australia and Oceania, Europe
- Also known as
- Grass webworm, Pale sod-webworm
Where the facts come from
- Herpetogramma licarsisalis (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 Ben Sale from UK. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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