Apium species, including garden celery, are eaten by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Angle Shades, Common Swift, Hypercompe icasia, The Nutmeg, Setaceous Hebrew Character and Turnip Moth.
The hindwings are grey, usually much darker than in Heart and Dart and Turnip Moth.
The hindwings are whitish (compared with other common Agrotis species the hindwings of this species are usually paler than in Heart and Club but darker than in Turnip Moth).
It is a cutworm in the genus Agrotis, which possibly is the genus that includes the largest number of species of cutworms.
moth | Winter Moth | Turnip Moth | Geometer moth | Autumnal Moth | De Havilland Tiger Moth | de Havilland Tiger Moth | Common Swift (moth) | The Moth & the Flame | Mouse Moth | Moth | turnip moth | Samia (moth) | Parthenice Tiger Moth | Pale November Moth | Mother Shipton Moth | Gipsy Moth IV | Forest Tent Caterpillar Moth | De Havilland Puss Moth | Burnet Companion Moth | British Moth | ''Yucca'' moth borers | White Moth | The Love Moth | scarlet tiger moth | mouse moth | Maltese Ruby Tiger Moth | Leaf Blotch Miner Moth | Laysan Noctuid Moth | Imperial moth (''Eacles imperialis |
Coffee is used as a food plant by the larvae of some Lepidoptera (butterfly and moth) species, Dalcera abrasa, turnip moth and some members of the genus Endoclita, including E. damor and E. malabaricus.