#2485 · 🦋 butterflies & moths
Bird-cherry Ermine
🇳🇱 Vogelkersstippelmot ·Yponomeuta evonymella
🦋 Butterflies & moths 📍 in the Netherlands
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Michał Brzeziński · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Pekka Malinen · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 3. © Pekka Malinen · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 4. © Nikolai Vladimirov · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © suursammakko · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © Deb Collins · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 7. © Adriano Losso · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. © Donald Hobern · CC BY 4.0
- 9. © degeerelle · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 10. © See my Collections (...) for navigation · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
what is it?
The bird-cherry ermine ( Yponomeuta evonymella ) is a day active lepidopteran from the family Yponomeutidae, the ermine moths. The wingspan of the moth ranges from 16 to 25 mm.
base stats
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
- Spotted 285 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 16,799 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Bird-cherry Ermine
- Nederlands
- Vogelkersstippelmot
- scientific name
- Yponomeuta evonymella
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Lepidoptera
- family
- Yponomeutidae
- sightings in NL
- 285
- sightings in Europe
- 9,642
- sightings worldwide
- 16,799
- GBIF records in NL
- 45,255
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1758
relatives· Yponomeutidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 324630, Wikidata Q1829198, GBIF 1830380, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.