#2871 · 🦋 butterflies & moths

Alder Moth

🇳🇱 Elzenuil ·Acronicta alni

🦋 Butterflies & moths 📍 in the Netherlands

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

1. © Michał Brzeziński · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Gilles San Martin · CC BY-SA 4.0
3. © Alain Roujas · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © lastovka · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Ben Sale · CC BY 4.0
6. © Michał Brzeziński · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. © lastovka · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. © lastovka · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. © Ben Sale · CC BY 4.0
10. © Wildlife in a Dorset garden. · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

what is it?

Acronicta alni , the alder moth , is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in Europe (from southern Fennoscandia to Spain, Italy and the Balkans), Turkey, the European part of Russia and the neighbouring countries, the Caucasus, the Ural, southern Siberia, Transbaikalia, the Russian Far East (Primorye, Sakhalin, southern Kuriles, Khabarovsk and the Amur region), China, Japan (Hokkaido and Honshu) and the Korean Peninsula.

base stats

NL sightings 31iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 3,392iNaturalist 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).