#2462 · 🦋 butterflies & moths
Bright-line Brown-eye
🇳🇱 Groente-uil ·Lacanobia oleracea
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Michał Brzeziński · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Andrey Ponomarev · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Anita Sprungk · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Martiño Cabana Otero · CC BY 4.0
- 5. © krezga · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © Gilles San Martin · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 7. © sabine-g · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. © sabine-g · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. © Michał Brzeziński · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. © Michał Brzeziński · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
The bright-line brown-eye ( Lacanobia oleracea ) is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is a common species throughout Europe, but is also found in North Africa (Morocco and Algeria), temperate North Asia and Central Asia, Asia Minor, Syria, and Turkestan, northern India, China, Korea and Japan.
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 363 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 15,365 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- English
- Bright-line Brown-eye
- Nederlands
- Groente-uil
- scientific name
- Lacanobia oleracea
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Lepidoptera
- family
- Noctuidae
- sightings in NL
- 363
- sightings in Europe
- 11,553
- sightings worldwide
- 15,365
- GBIF records in NL
- 57,587
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
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👀 3.2k in NL
#2396 📷 10Silver Υ
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Autographa gamma
👀 1.7k in NL
#2414 📷 10Setaceous Hebrew Character
🇳🇱 Zwarte-c-uil
Xestia c-nigrum
👀 704 in NL
#2423 📷 10Flounced Rustic
🇳🇱 Gewone grasuil
Luperina testacea
👀 605 in NL
#2428 📷 10Lesser Yellow Underwing
🇳🇱 Volgeling
Noctua comes
👀 578 in NL
#2429 📷 9Knot Grass Moth
🇳🇱 Zuringuil
Acronicta rumicis
👀 538 in NL
#2439 📷 10Square-spot Rustic
🇳🇱 Vierkantvlekuil
Xestia xanthographa
👀 483 in NL
#2440 📷 10Flame Shoulder Moth
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👀 455 in NL
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 322129, Wikidata Q769896, GBIF 1759083, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.