#2941 · 🦋 butterflies & moths

Beaded Chestnut

🇳🇱 Variabele herfstuil ·Agrochola lychnidis

🦋 Butterflies & moths 📍 in the Netherlands

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

1. © Michał Brzeziński · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © lastovka · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Michał Brzeziński · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Luigi Andena · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Francisilmuloparlante · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Paolo Mazzei · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. © Paolo Mazzei · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Agrochola lychnidis , the beaded chestnut , is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is distributed throughout the whole of Europe from Ireland to the Urals. It also occurs in western North Africa and Asia minor.

base stats

NL sightings 8iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 5,755iNaturalist 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).