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Eyed Hawk-moth

Smerinthus ocellata

990Records since 2000
JunePeak month
54Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb1
Mar2
Apr8
May200
Jun494
Jul161
Aug48
Sep14
Oct0
Nov0
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Oxfordshire England189
2Cambridgeshire England126
3Suffolk England91
4West Berkshire England54
5Worcestershire England37
6Norfolk England30
7Kent England13
8Cornwall England13
9Gwynedd Wales11
10Telford and Wrekin England10
11Armagh City, Banbridge and Craig Northern Ireland10
12Surrey England8
13Isle of Anglesey Wales8
14Sefton England7
15East Riding of Yorkshire England6
921 England1 Scotland44 Wales14 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 54 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
990
Peak month
June
Counties with records
54
Scientific name
Smerinthus ocellata
Group
Butterflies and moths
NBN Atlas records since 2000
793
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Sphingidae
Genus
Smerinthus
Name with authority
Smerinthus ocellata Linnaeus, 1758
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
18

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q318989 · GBIF 1862580