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Dame's Rocket Moth

Plutella porrectella

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.January 154, February 113, March 178, April 279, May 403, June 439, July 470, August 404, September 297, October 222, November 121, December 95.
United States3,705
Alaska3,175
Canada440
Ontario340
New York225
Michigan56
Pennsylvania43
British Columbia40
United Kingdom32
Quebec30

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
FamilyPlutellidae
GenusPlutella

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