#3074 · 🦋 butterflies & moths

Pearl Crescent

Phyciodes tharos

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

1. © Greg Lasley · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Royal Tyler · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
3. © Beatriz Moisset · CC BY-SA 4.0
4. © Royal Tyler · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
5. Post Ln, Middleburg, VA, US:© laurengraham26 · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. Juniata County, PA, USA:© Cameala · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
7. Sequoyah County, OK, USA:© C. A. Ivy · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Gainesville, FL, USA:© joooom · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Forest Home, NY 14850, USA:© Alan Liang · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. 87 Brooks Pl, West Bridgewater, MA, US:© John Carlson · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The pearl crescent ( Phyciodes tharos ) is a butterfly of North America. It is found in all parts of the United States except the west coast, and throughout Mexico and parts of southern Canada, in particular Ontario. Its habitat is open areas such as pastures, road edges, vacant lots, fields, open pine woods. Its pattern is quite variable. Males usually have black antenna knobs. Its upperside is orange with black borders; postmedian and submarginal areas are crossed...

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 119,227iNaturalist 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

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
119,227 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Dru Drury in 1773 (253 years ago).