#2967 · 🦋 butterflies & moths

July Highflyer Moth

🇳🇱 Variabele spanner ·Hydriomena furcata

🦋 Butterflies & moths 📍 in the Netherlands

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

1. © Jacques Larivée · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © richardjaybee · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © phlambler · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Samuel Büttler · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Donald Hobern · CC BY 4.0
6. © Steve Orridge · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. © laurikaila · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. © Kåre Würtz Strandhave · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. © purperlibel · CC BY-SA 4.0
10. © phlambler · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Hydriomena furcata , the July highflyer , is a moth of the family Geometridae. The species was first described by Carl Peter Thunberg in 1784. It is found in the Holarctic ecozone.

base stats

NL sightings 2iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 4,208iNaturalist 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).