#2678 · 🦋 butterflies & moths

Fen Wainscot

🇳🇱 Egale rietboorder ·Arenostola phragmitidis

🦋 Butterflies & moths 📍 in the Netherlands

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what is it?

The Fen Wainscot ( Arenostola phragmitidis ) is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found in most of Europe (except Ireland, Iceland, the Iberian Peninsula and the western part of the Balkan Peninsula), western Siberia, Turkey, Iraq, Afghanistan, central Asia and China.

base stats

NL sightings 74iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 522iNaturalist 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).