#2659 · 🦋 butterflies & moths
The Clay
🇳🇱 Gekraagde grasuil ·Mythimna ferrago
9 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Michał Brzeziński · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Nikolai Vladimirov · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Gábor Keresztes · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Michał Brzeziński · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Francis Birlenbach · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © Julien Bottinelli · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. © Mario Bassini · CC BY 4.0
- 8. © Donald Hobern · CC BY 4.0
- 9. © Andreas Manz · CC0
what is it?
Mythimna ferrago , the clay , is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is distributed throughout Europe and is also found in Morocco, Algeria, Turkey, Asia Minor, Armenia, Syria, Turkestan, Israel, Lebanon, Iraq, Iran, Central Asia and the western parts of temperate North Asia. Also Tibet.
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 83 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 7,035 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1787 (239 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- The Clay
- Nederlands
- Gekraagde grasuil
- scientific name
- Mythimna ferrago
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Lepidoptera
- family
- Noctuidae
- sightings in NL
- 83
- sightings in Europe
- 5,535
- sightings worldwide
- 7,035
- GBIF records in NL
- 4,613
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1787 by Johan Christian Fabricius
relatives· Noctuidae
#2388 📷 7Large Yellow Underwing
🇳🇱 Huismoeder
Noctua pronuba
👀 3.2k in NL
#2396 📷 10Silver Υ
🇳🇱 Gamma-uil
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
🇳🇱 Haarbos
Ochropleura plecta
👀 455 in NL
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 324397, Wikidata Q1627382, GBIF 5772176, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.