Belted grass-veneer
The belted grass-veneer is a small moth that is a real world traveller. It lives in warm places all around the globe and sometimes flies far away to cooler countries. Its wings have fine silver streaks and little golden spots.
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Fun facts
It is a migrant, which means it travels long distances. It is a rare visitor in Britain and the Netherlands.
Its caterpillar is white with amber spots and grows to about 2 centimetres long.
Near the edge of each front wing it has a row of black dots with shiny golden spots beside them.
In southern Africa you can see it flying from October to April.
Most asked questions about Belted grass-veneer
?Where does the belted grass-veneer live?
In warm tropical and subtropical places all over the world.
?What does the belted grass-veneer eat?
Its caterpillars eat maize and sorghum.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Euchromius ocellea
- Named by
- Haworth, 1811
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Crambidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Crambidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Australia and Oceania
- Also known as
- Necklace veneer
Where the facts come from
- Euchromius ocellea (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 Andy Reago & Chrissy McClarren. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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