#2899 · 🦋 butterflies & moths

Grey Pine Carpet

🇳🇱 Naaldboomspanner ·Thera obeliscata

🦋 Butterflies & moths 📍 in the Netherlands

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what is it?

Thera obeliscata , the grey pine carpet , is a moth of the family Geometridae. It is found throughout north and central Europe and east across the Palearctic to Siberia, and south to the Caucasus and Transcaucasia. In the Alps it can be found at an altitude of over 1500 metres.

base stats

NL sightings 28iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 3,557iNaturalist 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).