#2411 · 🦋 butterflies & moths

Garden Grass-veneer

🇳🇱 Gewone grasmot ·Chrysoteuchia culmella

🦋 Butterflies & moths 📍 in the Netherlands

7 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Евгений Яковлев · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Andrey Ponomarev · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Andrey Ponomarev · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © jora1900 · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © David Short · CC BY 4.0
6. © David Short · CC BY 4.0
7. © Wildlife in a Dorset garden · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

what is it?

Chrysoteuchia culmella , the garden grass-veneer , is a species of moth of the family Crambidae. It was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae . It is found in Europe.

base stats

NL sightings 739iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 26,719iNaturalist observations

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

Spotted 739 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #27 most seen of the butterflies & moths in NL.
26,719 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).