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Woody Underwing

Catocala grynea

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
(c) matthewtobey1, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

28 photos

Study shows up to four per card, from different observers, so you learn the species rather than one picture. Heart the good ones and swap any you do not like.

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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 43, February 44, March 69, April 136, May 261, June 122, July 228, August 246, September 88, October 72, November 45, December 40.
United States3,307
Canada1,215
Ontario1,094
New York692
Michigan477
Massachusetts335
Ohio270
Connecticut200
Pennsylvania182
West Virginia127

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
FamilyUnderwing, Tiger, Tussock, and Allied Moths · Erebidae
GenusUnderwing Moths · Catocala

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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