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White Furcula Moth

Furcula borealis

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

27 photos

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Ontario.January 21, February 21, March 34, April 66, May 126, June 131, July 51, August 78, September 42, October 35, November 22, December 19.
United States2,741
Canada665
Ontario530
New York527
Massachusetts308
Virginia159
Michigan146
West Virginia138
Quebec131
Vermont124

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
FamilyProminent Moths · Notodontidae
GenusFurcula

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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