#2483 · 🦋 butterflies & moths
Oak Eggar
🇳🇱 Hageheld ·Lasiocampa quercus
7 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
what is it?
Lasiocampa quercus , the oak eggar , is a moth of the family Lasiocampidae found in Europe and the British Isles.
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 295 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 28,676 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Oak Eggar
- Nederlands
- Hageheld
- scientific name
- Lasiocampa quercus
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Lepidoptera
- family
- Lasiocampidae
- sightings in NL
- 295
- sightings in Europe
- 26,527
- sightings worldwide
- 28,676
- GBIF records in NL
- 19,497
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1758
relatives· Lasiocampidae
#2419 📷 8Fox Moth
🇳🇱 Veelvraat
Macrothylacia rubi
👀 661 in NL
#2448 📷 10Drinker Moth
🇳🇱 Rietvink
Euthrix potatoria
👀 408 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 56582, Wikidata Q261053, GBIF 1734826, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.