#2448 · 🦋 butterflies & moths
Drinker Moth
🇳🇱 Rietvink ·Euthrix potatoria
🦋 Butterflies & moths 📍 in the Netherlands
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Michał Brzeziński · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Drepanostoma · CC BY 4.0
- 3. © Алексей Шмаров · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © floriangutsch · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Tony Morris · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © Иван Тисленко · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. © Nikolai Vladimirov · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. © Kim Falck · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. © Алексей Шмаров · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. © Uzzy · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Euthrix potatoria , the drinker , is an orange-brown moth of the family Lasiocampidae....
base stats
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).
fun facts
- Spotted 408 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 25,769 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Drinker Moth
- Nederlands
- Rietvink
- scientific name
- Euthrix potatoria
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Lepidoptera
- family
- Lasiocampidae
- sightings in NL
- 408
- sightings in Europe
- 23,559
- sightings worldwide
- 25,769
- GBIF records in NL
- 28,626
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1758
relatives· Lasiocampidae
#2419 📷 8Fox Moth
🇳🇱 Veelvraat
Macrothylacia rubi
👀 661 in NL
#2483 📷 7Oak Eggar
🇳🇱 Hageheld
Lasiocampa quercus
👀 295 in NL
#2511 📷 10The Lackey
🇳🇱 Ringelrups
Malacosoma neustria
👀 211 in NL
#2614 📷 7Grass Eggar
🇳🇱 Kleine hageheld
Lasiocampa trifolii
👀 107 in NL
#2733 📷 10Ground Lackey
🇳🇱 Heideringelrups
Malacosoma castrensis
👀 57 in NL
#2914 📷 10Pine-tree Lappet
🇳🇱 Dennenspinner
Dendrolimus pini
👀 23 in NL
#3094 📷 8Eastern Tent Caterpillar Moth
Malacosoma americana
🌍 66.4k seen
#3111 📷 10Forest Tent Caterpillar Moth
Malacosoma disstria
🌍 41.9k seen
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 125012, Wikidata Q261060, GBIF 1734453, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.