#2829 · 🦋 butterflies & moths

L-album Wainscot

🇳🇱 Witte-l-uil ·Mythimna l-album

🦋 Butterflies & moths 📍 in the Netherlands

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

1. © Michał Brzeziński · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Martin Galli · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Martin Grimm · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Michał Brzeziński · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Jakob Fahr · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. 2901 KB Capelle aan den IJssel, Nederland:© Paul G. Schrijvershof · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
7. Economenlaan, Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, NL:© peeceel · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Noord-Holland, NL:© thegreatdodo · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. 1797 SL Den Hoorn Texel, Nederland:© Anja Cervencl · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Wageningen, Nederland:© André Nagelhout · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Mythimna l-album , the L-album wainscot , is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is distributed throughout Europe, but is also found in North Africa from Morocco to Tunisia and in the Levant, then east across the Palearctic to Central Asia. It is not found in the far north of the Arabian Peninsula. The limit in the north varies. It occurs on the northern edge of the range as a migrant. From southern England, then Denmark and...

base stats

NL sightings 37iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 3,432iNaturalist 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).