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Nutmeg Moth

Anarta trifolii

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 Alaska.January 4,519, February 3,337, March 5,229, April 8,226, May 11,861, June 12,934, July 13,840, August 11,902, September 8,738, October 6,523, November 3,564, December 2,786.
United States95,154
Alaska93,460
Canada930
Bulgaria890
Plovdiv755
United Kingdom747
England742
Russia667
Hungary568
Ukraine560

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
GenusAnarta

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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