Garden Grass-veneer

Garden grass-veneers are abundant summer micro-moths that flutter up from turf and meadows when disturbed by footsteps. By day, they rest head-down along grass blades, tightly wrapping their golden-brown and silver-streaked wings around their bodies to look like spent seed heads. Larvae spin silken galleries around the roots and stem bases of fine grasses, overwintering safely beneath the soil surface before emerging as adults in early summer.