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Urola nivalis

species of insect

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ7900871 ↗
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Urola nivalis, the snowy urola moth, is a moth of the family Crambidae. It is found from southern Canada and Maine, south to Florida and west to Illinois and Texas.

The wingspan is 15–23 mm. Adults are on wing from May to September in two generations per year.

The larvae feed on various grasses and are considered a pest of Ligustrum species.

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This entry incorporates text from “Urola nivalis” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.