Crambidae

63.104 Yellow Grass-moth Catoptria lythargyrella (Hübner, 1796)

Immigrant

Similar species:

Forewing: 12 to 16mm

Habitats: Grasslands.

Habits: There are five 19th Century records of this moth in Britain.

Foodplant: The early stages have not been recorded in Britain. On the European mainland it feeds from a vertical silk gallery in the ground on meadow-grasses and rye-grasses. It overwinters in a cocoon in the ground where it pupates in the spring.