#2607 · 🦋 butterflies & moths

Double Square-spot

🇳🇱 Driehoekuil ·Xestia triangulum

🦋 Butterflies & moths 📍 in the Netherlands

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

1. © Michał Brzeziński · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Nikolai Vladimirov · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Donald Hobern · CC BY 4.0
4. © Michał Brzeziński · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. Bennekom, Nederland:© Chris van Swaay · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. Bennekom, Nederland:© Chris van Swaay · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Ede, Gelderland, Netherlands:© Chris van Swaay · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Nationalpark Schiermonnikoog, Schiermonnikoog, Provinz Friesland, NL:© Samuel Büttler · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Bennekom, Nederland:© Chris van Swaay · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. 3925 Scherpenzeel, Nederland:© Rob C. H. M. Oudejans · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The double square-spot ( Xestia triangulum ) is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is distributed through most of Europe except Portugal, the Mediterranean islands and northernmost Fennoscandia. In the East, the species ranges East across the Palearctic to Siberia and in the South-East to the Black Sea and in Iran. It rises to a height of about 2000 metres in the Alps.

base stats

NL sightings 112iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 5,775iNaturalist 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).