Last modified: June 12, 2019, 12:15 p.m.
A fairly common species throughout Belgium.
Native
Hibernates as a larva in an underground cocoon, in which it pupates in the spring. The adults come to light and sugar. Also often recorded indoors.
The adults fly probably in two generations a year and have been seen in all months of the year, but most observations are between mid April and mid October.
The larva lives on various cereal crops, including cultivated ones, grasses and other low plants.