Mythimna l-album
In 3 days ~10% in a week ~20%
Mythimna l-album, the L-album wainscot, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1767 12th edition of Systema Naturae. It is distributed throughout Europe, but is also found in North Africa from Morocco to Tunisia and in the Levant, then east across the Palearctic to Central Asia. It is not found in the far north of the Arabian Peninsula. The limit in the north varies. It occurs on the northern edge of the range as a migrant. From southern England, then Denmark and southern Scandinavia, the north limit cuts across the Baltic Sea across the Baltic states then south of Moscow to the Urals. Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sierra Nevada National Park | 🇪🇸 Spain | |
| 2 | Cévennes National Park | 🇫🇷 France | |
| 3 | Sierra de Guadarrama National Park | 🇪🇸 Spain | |
| 4 | Bavarian Forest National Park | 🇩🇪 Germany |
Rare
Under 5% of wildlife watchers report a L-Album Wainscot sighting in Hamburg on a given day, based on 5 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 364th most-seen of the 423 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 10%, and over a week to about 20%, if each day is a fresh chance.
September
In that month about 10% of wildlife watchers report a L-Album Wainscot in Hamburg on a given day, against under 5% in October to August, the lowest months.
Between 10 pm and 1 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most L-Album Wainscot sightings with a recorded time, and about 7 in 10 of them come between 6 pm and 6 am: it is mostly seen at night.
8th of 12
Of the 12 cities where we can rate L-Album Wainscot sightings, Hamburg ranks 8th at under 5%. The best odds are in Kharkiv (Ukraine, about 10%), London (United Kingdom, about 10%) and Budapest (Hungary, about 10%).
Same family: Noctuidae
The closest relatives of the L-Album Wainscot 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 L-Album Wainscot is recorded against all the insects logged in Hamburg (5 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.
