This is a filtered dataset from GBIF including all Noctuidae observations identified to the species level in the North American range. Data was downloaded using rgbif::occ_download and accessed from R via rgbif (https://github.com/ropensci/rgbif) on 2024-11-10. The original unfiltered GBIF occurrences can be download at https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.venjgg, and https://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/download/request/0005491-241107131044228.zip. The data is filtered to have coordinates in North America, no geospatial issues, no duplicates across species and coordinates, no coordinate uncertainty greater than 1 kilometer, and no occurrences lying within 1km of a college or university. This dataset is incomplete as it does not include ALL observations that occur in North American countries as observations lacking a continent field of "north_america" in GBIF are not included. The data was uploaded to Zenodo after filtering with the following DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.14062536.