#2912 · 🦋 butterflies & moths

Death's Head Hawkmoth

🇳🇱 Doodshoofdvlinder ·Acherontia atropos

🦋 Butterflies & moths 📍 in the Netherlands

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

1. © Jose Neto · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Paolo Mazzei · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Jürgen Mangelsdorf · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
4. © richardjaybee · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Rubén F. A. · CC BY 4.0
6. 6271 NW Gulpen, Nederland:© vanbee · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Leiden, NL-ZH, NL:© Mrigank Shekhar Pathak · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. 4326 Noordwelle, Netherlands:© Jan Meerman · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Broekstraat 40, 5421 ZJ Gemert, Pays-Bas:© Amandine Rasset · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. 3781 Voorthuizen, Nederland:© André Nagelhout · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Acherontia atropos ( African death's head hawkmoth ) is the most widely known of the three species of death's-head hawkmoth. Acherontia species are notorious for a vaguely skull-shaped pattern on the thorax.

base stats

NL sightings 25iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 8,884iNaturalist 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).