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Dried Fruit Moth

Vitula edmandsii

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 North Carolina.January 7, February 8, March 8, April 12, May 12, June 7, July 6, August 6, September 7, October 7, November 6, December 6.
United States547
Canada122
North Carolina93
Alabama88
Ontario62
Tennessee54
Quebec48
New York42
Mississippi35
California28

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
FamilyPyralid Snout Moths · Pyralidae
GenusVitula

Sources

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