#2882 · 🦋 butterflies & moths
Willow Ermine
🇳🇱 Wilgenstippelmot ·Yponomeuta rorrella
🦋 Butterflies & moths 📍 in the Netherlands
7 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © cossus · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © lappuggla · CC BY-NC 4.0
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- 4. © cossus · CC BY-NC 4.0
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what is it?
Yponomeuta rorrella ( willow ermine moth ) is a lepidopteran from the family Yponomeutidae, the ermine moths, probably a migrant, but abundantly found in Britain, mostly concentrated in Northumberland.
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 30 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 1,591 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- English
- Willow Ermine
- Nederlands
- Wilgenstippelmot
- scientific name
- Yponomeuta rorrella
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Lepidoptera
- family
- Yponomeutidae
- sightings in NL
- 30
- sightings in Europe
- 424
- sightings worldwide
- 1,591
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
relatives· Yponomeutidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 335612, Wikidata Q50404998, GBIF 4525372, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.