Elegant grass-veneer
The elegant grass-veneer is a tiny silvery-white moth with brown shading. When it rests, it folds its wings into a tight tube. Seen from above, its pattern looks like a funny Halloween mask, with two triangle eyes and a frowning mouth.
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Fun facts
Its wings are only about 1.2 to 1.5 centimetres from tip to tip.
It has a row of seven black dots along the bottom edge of each front wing.
Long hairy parts near its mouth stick out and look like a little snout.
In the south there are several families of them a year, in the north only one.
Most asked questions about Elegant grass-veneer
?What does the elegant grass-veneer look like?
It is a tiny silvery-white moth with brown shading and a pattern like a Halloween mask.
?What does the elegant grass-veneer eat?
Its caterpillars eat grasses.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Microcrambus elegans
- Named by
- Clemens, 1860
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Crambidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Crambidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Microcrambus elegans (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 Mike Boone. CC BY-SA 2.5, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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