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Early Button Slug Moth

Tortricidia testacea

3,773 observations in the source records

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What the records say

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Ontario.January 30, February 31, March 49, April 95, May 183, June 301, July 112, August 58, September 62, October 50, November 31, December 28.
United States3,481
Canada1,852
Ontario769
New York522
Quebec483
Maryland290
Virginia263
West Virginia253
Vermont207
Nova Scotia205

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
FamilySlug Caterpillar Moths · Limacodidae
GenusTortricidia

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