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Common Quaker

Orthosia cerasi

9,502Records since 2000
MarchPeak month
83Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan40
Feb567
Mar3,852
Apr3,604
May759
Jun191
Jul12
Aug6
Sep2
Oct4
Nov3
Dec6

GBIF records by month, 2000–2025 (all years combined).

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1West Berkshire England1,131
2Oxfordshire England1,049
3Argyll and Bute Scotland1,021
4Worcestershire England342
5Highland Scotland341
6Bracknell Forest England198
7Newry, Mourne and Down Northern Ireland163
8Suffolk England154
9Antrim and Newtownabbey Northern Ireland149
10Causeway Coast and Glens Northern Ireland114
11Norfolk England107
12Telford and Wrekin England102
13Surrey England95
14Perth and Kinross Scotland84
15North Yorkshire England81
7,015 England1,656 Scotland112 Wales653 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 83 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
9,502
Peak month
March
Counties with records
83
Scientific name
Orthosia cerasi
Group
Butterflies and moths
NBN Atlas records since 2000
7,390
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Noctuidae
Genus
Orthosia
Name with authority
Orthosia cerasi Fabricius, 1775
Described
1775
Contributing datasets
28

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q914251 · GBIF 1798984