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Norman's Quaker

Crocigrapha normani

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
(c) ceiseman, 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.

Photos you add are credited to you, and you keep the copyright.

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 41, February 42, March 67, April 131, May 351, June 124, July 89, August 80, September 84, October 69, November 43, December 39.
United States2,212
Canada1,842
Ontario1,056
Quebec831
New York600
Michigan225
Massachusetts138
Pennsylvania129
Vermont127
New Hampshire95

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
GenusCrocigrapha

Sources

Remember the name next time.

Practise Norman's Quaker with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.