#2484 · 🦋 butterflies & moths

Common Quaker

🇳🇱 Tweestreepvoorjaarsuil ·Orthosia cerasi

🦋 Butterflies & moths 📍 in the Netherlands

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

1. © Jean-Pierre Moussus · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Michał Brzeziński · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Andrey Ponomarev · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © lastovka · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © nicky-by-nature · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Eugenio Pighi · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. 's-Gravenland, Capelle aan den IJssel, Nederland:© Paul G. Schrijvershof · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
8. Bennekom, Nederland:© Chris van Swaay · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Veluwe, Wageningen, Gelderland, NL:© Samuel Büttler · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Wageningen, Niederlande:© Jaro Schacht · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The common Quaker ( Orthosia cerasi ) is a moth of the family Noctuidae. Some authors prefer the synonym Orthosia stabilis (Denis & Schiffermüller 1775). It is distributed throughout Europe and is also found in Turkey, Israel, Transcaucasia, Russia and eastern Siberia.

base stats

NL sightings 287iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 16,177iNaturalist 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).