#2803 · 🦋 butterflies & moths
Shears
🇳🇱 Schaaruil ·Hada plebeja
9 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Michał Brzeziński · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Marco Bonifacino · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Nikolai Vladimirov · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Michał Brzeziński · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Michał Brzeziński · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © David Short · CC BY 4.0
- 7. © Shamil Murtazin · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. © motheaten · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. © Raoul Gerend · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Hada plebeja , the shears , is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in Europe and across the Palearctic to Asia Minor, Armenia, Turkestan, Central Asia, Mongolia, Siberia. Also Kashmir.
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 42 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 4,817 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named in 1761 (265 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Shears
- Nederlands
- Schaaruil
- scientific name
- Hada plebeja
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Lepidoptera
- family
- Noctuidae
- sightings in NL
- 42
- sightings in Europe
- 3,839
- sightings worldwide
- 4,817
- GBIF records in NL
- 3,784
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1761
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#2423 📷 10Flounced Rustic
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👀 605 in NL
#2428 📷 10Lesser Yellow Underwing
🇳🇱 Volgeling
Noctua comes
👀 578 in NL
#2429 📷 9Knot Grass Moth
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👀 538 in NL
#2439 📷 10Square-spot Rustic
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#2440 📷 10Flame Shoulder Moth
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Sources: iNaturalist taxon 357809, Wikidata Q1309807, GBIF 1761041, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.