#2619 · 🦋 butterflies & moths

Common Wainscot

🇳🇱 Bleke grasuil ·Mythimna pallens

🦋 Butterflies & moths 📍 in the Netherlands

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what is it?

Mythimna pallens , the common wainscot , is a moth of the family Noctuidae distributed throughout the Palearctic realm from Ireland in the west, through Europe (all of Russia) to Central Asia and Amur to the Kuriles in the east. The species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae .

base stats

NL sightings 101iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 11,702iNaturalist 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).