Mythimna l-album
In 3 days ~30% in a week ~50%
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 |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a L-Album Wainscot sighting in London on a given day, based on 159 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 223rd most-seen of the 1504 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 30%, and over a week to about 50%, if each day is a fresh chance.
September
In that month about 30% of wildlife watchers report a L-Album Wainscot in London on a given day, against under 5% in November to May, 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.
Among the best
Of the 12 cities where we can rate L-Album Wainscot sightings, London ranks 2nd at about 10%, level with the leaders once rounded. The best odds are in Kharkiv (Ukraine, about 10%).
Same genus: Mythimna
The closest relatives of the L-Album Wainscot that you can see in London (genus Mythimna) are The White-Point (about 10%), Common Wainscot (about 10%) and The Clay (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 London (159 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.
