#2720 · 🦋 butterflies & moths

Eurasian Silver-bordered Fritillary

🇳🇱 Zilveren Maan ·Boloria selene

🦋 Butterflies & moths 📍 in the Netherlands

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

1. © Roberto Sindaco · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
2. © Roberto Sindaco · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
3. © Дмитрий · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Paul Cools · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Marcello Consolo · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
6. Overijssel, NL:© Annika Tiane Vermaat · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Netherlands:© Robin Fokker · CC BY 4.0
8. Netherlands:© Joey Bom · CC BY 4.0
9. 8421 Oldeberkoop, Nederland:© wleurs · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Lemelerveld, Nederland:© Chris van Swaay · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The small pearl-bordered fritillary ( Boloria selene ), called the silver-bordered fritillary in North America, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. The small pearl-bordered fritillary is found across Europe and North America, consuming exclusively violets in its larval stages. This species is well known to live in wet grassland habitats, where its larval food source, violets, are found. It overwinters in its larval stage, and lays eggs to be hatched in the late summer to early autumn....

base stats

NL sightings 59iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 10,108iNaturalist 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).