#2595 · 🦋 butterflies & moths

Ipsilon Dart Moth

🇳🇱 Grote worteluil ·Agrotis ipsilon

🦋 Butterflies & moths 📍 in the Netherlands

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what is it?

Agrotis ipsilon , the dark sword-grass , black cutworm , greasy cutworm, or floodplain cutworm is a small noctuid moth found worldwide. The moth gets its scientific name from black markings on its forewings shaped like a letter "Y" and resembles the Greek letter epsilon. The larvae are known as "cutworms" because they cut plants and other crops. The larvae are serious agricultural pests and feed on nearly all varieties of vegetables and many important grains.

base stats

NL sightings 122iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 35,361iNaturalist 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).