#2721 · 🦋 butterflies & moths

Waste Grass-veneer

🇳🇱 Oranjebruine grasmot ·Pediasia contaminella

🦋 Butterflies & moths 📍 in the Netherlands

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

1. © Marcello Consolo · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
2. © sofia-b · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. Schiermonnikoog, Niederlande:© Jaro Schacht · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. Schiermonnikoog, Niederlande:© Jaro Schacht · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. Schiermonnikoog, Niederlande:© Jaro Schacht · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. Noordwijkerhout, Nederland:© Paul Venderbosch · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Schiermonnikoog, Friesland, Netherlands:© Jaro Schacht · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Schiermonnikoog, Friesland, Netherlands:© Michel Langeveld · CC BY 4.0
9. Bellingwedde, Groningen, Netherlands:© Dorine Post · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Schiermonnikoog, Schiermonnikoog, Provinz Friesland, NL:© Samuel Büttler · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Pediasia contaminella is a species of moth in the Crambidae family described by Jacob Hübner in 1796. It is found in almost all of Europe, Asia Minor, the Caucasus, Transcaucasia, Iraq, Iran, the Kopet Dagh and Minusinsk.

base stats

NL sightings 59iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 5,380iNaturalist 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).