Lacanobia oleracea
In 3 days ~20% in a week ~40%
The bright-line brown-eye (Lacanobia oleracea) is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae. It is a common species throughout Europe, but is also found in North Africa (Morocco and Algeria), temperate North Asia and Central Asia, Asia Minor, Syria, and Turkestan, northern India, China, Korea and Japan.
This species' common name is usefully descriptive: The forewings are dark reddish brown marked with a prominent light orange-brown stigma and a bright white subterminal line. The hindwings are grey, darker towards the termen. The wingspan is 34–44 mm. They are attracted to light, sugar and nectar-rich flowers.
[Wingspan 35 to 40 mm.] Forewing red brown clouded with darker; veins grey, whitish towards termen: reniform stigma orange in its upper part, dark fuscous below; orbicular round, white edged, sometimes very small; submarginal line finely white, toothed on veins 3 and 4 to termen; hindwing dull whitish, pale fuscous towards termen; the veins dark. The ground colour varies on one side to black brown, ab. obscura Spul, and on the other to rufous, ab. rufa... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Snowdonia National Park | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom | |
| 2 | Wadden Sea National Park | 🇩🇪 Germany | |
| 3 | Bavarian Forest National Park | 🇩🇪 Germany | |
| 4 | Pyrénées National Park | 🇫🇷 France |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Liverpool | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom | |
| 2 | Kharkiv | 🇺🇦 Ukraine | |
| 3 | Manchester | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom | |
| 4 | Birmingham | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom | |
| 5 | Porto | 🇵🇹 Portugal | |
| 6 | Kyiv | 🇺🇦 Ukraine | |
| 7 | London | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom | |
| 8 | Hamburg | 🇩🇪 Germany | |
| 9 | Leeds | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom | |
| 10 | Amsterdam | 🇳🇱 Netherlands |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Bright-Line Brown-Eye sighting in Hamburg on a given day, based on 24 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 148th most-seen of the 423 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 20%, and over a week to about 40%, if each day is a fresh chance.
August
In that month about 20% of wildlife watchers report a Bright-Line Brown-Eye in Hamburg on a given day, against under 5% in April–July and October–February, the lowest months.
Between 6 and 9 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Bright-Line Brown-Eye sightings with a recorded time, and about 6 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is most active around dawn and dusk.
8th of 22
Of the 22 cities where we can rate Bright-Line Brown-Eye sightings, Hamburg ranks 8th at about 10%. The best odds are in Liverpool (United Kingdom, about 30%), Kharkiv (Ukraine, about 10%) and Manchester (United Kingdom, about 10%).
Same family: Noctuidae
The closest relatives of the Bright-Line Brown-Eye that you can see in Hamburg (family Noctuidae, Cutworm Moths and Allies) are Large Yellow Underwing (about 20%), Silver Υ (about 10%) and Angle Shades (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Bright-Line Brown-Eye is recorded against all the insects logged in Hamburg (24 verified sightings), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
