#2492 · 🦋 butterflies & moths

Straw-barred Pearl

🇳🇱 Weegbreemot ·Pyrausta despicata

🦋 Butterflies & moths 📍 in the Netherlands

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

1. © Mirko Tomasi · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Marcello Consolo · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
3. © Marcello Consolo · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
4. © Marcello Consolo · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
5. © Andrea Angiari · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © salvatore_infanti · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Bornerbroek, Netherlands:© owenkrz · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. PRRG+4H, Ellemeet, Nederland:© Marleen Schouten · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Groesbeek, Nederland:© Herman Berteler · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Ede, Nederland:© André Nagelhout · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Pyrausta despicata , the straw-barred pearl , is a species of moth of the family Crambidae. It was described by Giovanni Antonio Scopoli in his 1763 Entomologia Carniolica .

base stats

NL sightings 267iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 21,979iNaturalist 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).