What Animal Lives Where

Where has the Cabbage Moth been recorded?

Mamestra brassicae occurrence evidence comes from 6,387 records in 29 countries and territories, from 1827 to 2026. Most records come from Sweden.

Cabbage Moth
Cabbage Moth — Photo (display-sized rendition): picture taken by Olaf Leillinger · CC BY-SA 2.5 · Wikimedia Commons
InsectaLepidopteraNoctuidaeMamestra

Observation evidence passport

Evidence found

6,387 records across 29 countries and territories, 1827–2026.

Mamestra brassicae · GBIF taxon key 1788522

Source coverage

CC0 GBIF Animalia occurrence facets, including country, month and year summaries.

Refreshed 2026-09-21. Inspect the taxon on GBIF.

What this means

The species has been recorded in the listed places in the stated source universe. Peak month: August.

5 months reach at least 10% of the peak facet count.

What this does not mean

repeated describes the record pattern, not a formal range, residency, abundance or conservation assessment.

A single record remains evidence of a recording, not proof that a population lives there.

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When it is recorded

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Peak month: August. Records cluster in the months an animal is present and being looked for, so a summer peak can reflect observer effort as much as the animal.

Records over time

18272026

Recording effort has risen steeply almost everywhere since the 1990s, so a rising line usually shows more observers rather than more animals.

Where Cabbage Moth has been recorded

The countries below show where occurrence evidence exists for Cabbage Moth. They do not define a complete habitat range: survey effort differs by place, and historical or one-off records can appear alongside repeated presence.

PlaceRecordsShare
Sweden 2,317
Austria 2,253
Romania 494
Luxembourg 349
United Kingdom 279
Germany 162
France 136
Belgium 102
Italy 86
Czechia 49
Switzerland 46
South Korea 41
Netherlands 23
Spain 10
Russia 9
Finland 6
Bulgaria 4
Denmark 4
Hungary 4
Belarus 1
Canada 1
Guernsey 1
Poland 1
Portugal 1
Serbia 1
Slovenia 1
Slovakia 1
Türkiye 1
Ukraine 1

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Record pattern: repeated
Repeated records across many years and months. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map — treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.