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Dock Rustic Moth

Resapamea passer

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 7, February 7, March 11, April 21, May 41, June 19, July 14, August 13, September 14, October 11, November 7, December 6.
United States496
Canada345
Ontario171
Michigan104
New York91
Saskatchewan69
Nunavut39
Alberta37
Massachusetts34
Connecticut34

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
GenusResapamea

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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