Crambidae

63.113 Giant Grass-moth Ancylolomia tentaculella (Hübner, 1796)

Immigrant

Similar species:

Forewing: 14 to 16mm

Habitats: Rough grassland.

Habits: The moth is easily disturbed from grasses in the day. It comes to light.

Foodplant: The early stages have not been recorded in Britain and Ireland. On the European mainland it lives in a vertical silk tube at the base of a stem of Cock's-foot Grass and probably other grasses.