Bright-line brown-eye - Noctuelle potagère - Lacanobia oleracea

MACRO PHOTOGRAPHY OF THE Bright Line Brown eye butterfly!

The bright-line brown-eye (Lacanobia oleracea) is a moth of the family Noctuidae. 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.

The larva is green or brown dotted with white with black and yellow spiracular lines down the side with darker edging. The tubercles are black.It feeds on a wide range of plants and is occasionally a pest of cultivated tomatoes. The species overwinters as a pupa.