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Lesser Yellow Underwing

Noctua comes

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.January 19,577, February 14,459, March 22,655, April 35,641, May 51,389, June 56,036, July 59,962, August 51,567, September 37,859, October 28,259, November 15,442, December 12,069.
United States405,230
Alaska404,915
United Kingdom3,998
England3,555
Germany1,299
France1,242
Netherlands435
Austria418
Spain413
Italy360

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
GenusYellow Underwings · Noctua

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