#2428 · 🦋 butterflies & moths

Lesser Yellow Underwing

🇳🇱 Volgeling ·Noctua comes

🦋 Butterflies & moths 📍 in the Netherlands

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

1. © Donald Hobern · CC BY 4.0
2. © fatpoppycat · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Michał Brzeziński · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Marco Bonifacino · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Michał Brzeziński · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Wolf-Achim and Hanna Roland · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. © Michał Brzeziński · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. © Michał Brzeziński · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. © Donald Hobern · CC BY 4.0
10. © Paolo Mazzei · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The lesser yellow underwing ( Noctua comes ) is a moth of the family Noctuidae.

base stats

NL sightings 578iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 20,767iNaturalist 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).

fun facts

Spotted 578 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #44 most seen of the butterflies & moths in NL.
20,767 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Jacob Hübner in 1813 (213 years ago).