#3114 · 🦋 butterflies & moths

Yellow-striped Armyworm Moth

Spodoptera ornithogalli

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

1. © Mary Birrer · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Keith Roragen · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
3. © Anita · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © sea-kangaroo · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
5. © Seabrooke Leckie · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
6. © Anita Gould · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Provincetown, MA, USA:© Dan O'Brien · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. North Carolina, US:© grinnin · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Columbia County, AR, USA:© PRSonnen · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Mission St, South Pasadena, CA, US:© Ishaan Joseph · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Spodoptera ornithogalli ( yellow-striped armyworm , cotton cutworm ) is a moth of the family Noctuidae found in Guadeloupe, Marie-Galante, Saint Kitts, Dominica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica. In North America, it is found from California to Florida plus the eastern states, west to Kansas, and in south-eastern Canada from Nova Scotia to Ontario. In South America, it is found in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, Paraguay, Peru, and Venezuela. This particular species is known to be...

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 40,735iNaturalist 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.
40,735 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Achille Guenée in 1852 (174 years ago).