#2409 · 🦋 butterflies & moths

Small Dusty Wave

🇳🇱 Paardenbloemspanner ·Idaea seriata

🦋 Butterflies & moths 📍 in the Netherlands

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

1. © Michał Brzeziński · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Emanuele Santarelli · CC BY-SA 4.0
3. © Donald Hobern · CC BY 4.0
4. © Luca Boscain · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Riccardo Molajoli · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Françoise Alsaker · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Goirle, NL-NB, NL:© Paul Cools · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Graafland, Groot-Ammers, South Holland, NL:© no rights reserved · CC0
9. 6721 Bennekom, Nederland:© Chris van Swaay · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Segbroek, Den Haag, Nederland:© Rob Westerduijn · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The small dusty wave (Idaea seriata) is a moth of the family Geometridae. It is found throughout Europe, the Near East, and North Africa. In the British Isles it is common in England and Wales but is only found in the eastern half of Scotland and is absent from Ireland.

base stats

NL sightings 889iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 23,216iNaturalist 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).

fun facts

Spotted 889 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #25 most seen of the butterflies & moths in NL.
23,216 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Franz von Paula Schrank in 1802 (224 years ago).