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Hackberry Dagger

Acronicta rubricoma

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28 photos

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Texas.January 193, February 185, March 332, April 1,308, May 354, June 119, July 107, August 110, September 131, October 139, November 181, December 176.
Texas3,810
United States3,801
Canada145
Ontario139
Tennessee125
Ohio107
Kentucky96
Virginia89
Missouri85
Michigan79

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
GenusDagger Moths · Acronicta

Sources

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

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