Pediasia contaminella
Waste Grass-Veneer
Wingspan 20 to 30 mm.
Prefers dry grassy habitats.
It flies during July and August and is attracted to light.
The larvae feed in a silken tube amongst grasses such as sheep's fescue (Festuca ovina).
Distributed mainly in the southern counties, this is a rather local species. In the Butterfly Conservation's Microlepidoptera Report 2011 this species was classified as Nationally Scarce B.
Rare in VC55 (Leicestershire and Rutland) – the Sapcote record of 25th July 2018 was one of the first for our area.
Graham Calow
Sacote garden1
25 July 2018
1st record for VC55
Karaokeking19
Broughton Astley Garden
05 August 2020
egaten
Thurlaston garden
23 July 2022
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Species profile
- Common names
- Waste Grass-veneer
- Species group:
- insect - moth
- Kingdom:
- Animalia
- Order:
- Lepidoptera
- Family:
- Crambidae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 4
- First record:
- 25/07/2018 (Calow, Graham)
- Last record:
- 23/07/2022 (Gaten, Ted)
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Graham Calow
Sacote garden1
25 July 2018
Karaokeking19
Broughton Astley Garden
05 August 2020
