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Adorable Brocade Moth

Platypolia mactata

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

27 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 9, February 9, March 15, April 28, May 55, June 26, July 19, August 17, September 18, October 15, November 9, December 8.
United States501
Canada457
Ontario229
New York122
Quebec105
Michigan67
Massachusetts61
Vermont39
Minnesota34
New Hampshire33

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
GenusPlatypolia

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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