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Attentive Dart

Eueretagrotis attentus

Easily confused with

Study checks a spoken answer against these, and tells you which one you named.

Where it is recorded

Records by month in Ontario.January 12, February 13, March 20, April 39, May 75, June 35, July 98, August 24, September 25, October 21, November 13, December 11.
Canada840
Ontario313
Quebec294
United States246
Nova Scotia126
Michigan96
New Brunswick72
New York36
Minnesota23
New Hampshire19

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Physical

  • MetamorphosisUndergoes dramatic body transformation during developmentFrom its classification
  • ExoskeletonHas a hard external skeletonFrom its classification

Group and habits

  • Animal pollinatorDescends from an animal lineage whose members commonly pollinate flowers.Inferred from its group

Classification

KingdomAnimals · Animalia
PhylumArthropods · Arthropoda
ClassInsects · Insecta
OrderButterflies and Moths · Lepidoptera
FamilyCutworm Moths and Allies · Noctuidae
GenusEueretagrotis

Sources

Remember the name next time.

Practise Attentive Dart with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.