#2540 · 🦋 butterflies & moths

Clouded Yellow

🇳🇱 Oranje luzernevlinder ·Colias crocea

🦋 Butterflies & moths 📍 in the Netherlands

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

1. © elisabraz · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Carmelo López Abad · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Roberto Sindaco · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
4. © Liz Mary · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © SteveM4560 · CC BY 4.0
6. © Andrea Kreuzhage · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. 's-Hertogenbosch, Nederland:© Chris van Swaay · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. 9479 TC Noordlaren, Nederland:© Jeroen van der Brugge · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Sint Pieter, Maastricht, Nederland:© Jeroen van der Brugge · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Liesdijk, Oost-West-en Middelbeers, Brabant, NL:© marlm · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Colias croceus is a small butterfly of the Pieridae family, that is, the yellows and whites. In India and nearby regions it is known as the dark clouded yellow or common clouded yellow to distinguish it from the other species of clouded yellows occurring there; elsewhere it is often simply known as the clouded yellow , as it was the first and original butterfly to go by this name.

base stats

NL sightings 168iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 41,641iNaturalist 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).