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Garden Grass-veneer Chrysoteuchia culmella

Chrysoteuchia culmella not only looks like many of the other Grass Moths, it behaves like many of the others too. Reaching a wingspan of up to 24 mm this is your typical Grass Moth. Is easily disturbed from grasses during the day, but is not active during daylight in any other way. It is believed this is a migrating species. Often appears in great numbers. Common to abundant all over Britain.

The Garden Grass-veneer is also known by its former scientific name: Chrysoteuchia hortuella.