#2669 · 🦋 butterflies & moths

Magpie Moth

🇳🇱 Bonte bessenvlinder ·Abraxas grossulariata

🦋 Butterflies & moths 📍 in the Netherlands

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Andrey Ponomarev · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Paolo Mazzei · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Nigel Voaden · CC BY 4.0
4. © Andrey Ponomarev · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Andrey Ponomarev · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Andrey Ponomarev · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. 1906 CL Limmen, Nederland:© anjadgrt · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. 4131 CZ:© inge200 · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Den Helder:© megapearl · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Meijendel and Berkheide, Katwijk, South Holland, NL:© Jeremy A. Emmett · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Abraxas grossulariata is a moth of the family Geometridae, native to the Palaearctic ecozone and North America. Its distinctive speckled colouration has given it a common name of magpie moth . The caterpillar is similarly coloured to the adult, and may be found as a pest feeding on the leaves of shrubs such as gooseberry.

base stats

NL sightings 78iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 5,250iNaturalist observations

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).