Snout

Hypena proboscidalis

Common species throughout Britain, mainly nocturnal.

Larvae are velvety green with the dorsal line darker green; the subdorsal lines paler; head, legs, and tubercles green.

The Larvae feeds on Nettles.

 Its forewings are grey brown with numerous dark transverse striae, and with a brownish-yellow suffusion in the females; the lines dark brown; the inner curved or bent in middle; the outer oblique, nearly straight, slightly incurved at costa, internally shaded with dark brown; the subterminal cloudy and partially interrupted, above middle marked with black white-tipped dashes, followed by a brown cloud, the subapical edge of which is oblique; hindwing pale greyish.

The Moth flies in two generations from May to September.