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Powdered Bigwing Moth

Lobophora nivigerata

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

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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

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Ontario.

Canada	4,232
United States	2,527
Ontario	1,632
Quebec	998
New York	674
Michigan	322
Nova Scotia	279
Alaska	239
Minnesota	217
New Brunswick	185

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

Kingdom	Animals · Animalia
Phylum	Arthropods · Arthropoda
Class	Insects · Insecta
Order	Butterflies and Moths · Lepidoptera
Family	Geometer Moths · Geometridae
Genus	Lobophora

Sources

Names, taxonomy and observation counts: www.inaturalist.org
Photos and recordings: the creator and source are on each one.
How much to rely on each source

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