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Praevia Dart

Xestia praevia

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Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
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28 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 New York.January 9, February 9, March 12, April 21, May 36, June 18, July 13, August 12, September 14, October 13, November 9, December 8.
United States629
Canada254
New York173
Vermont144
Ontario110
New Hampshire77
North Carolina74
Quebec71
Michigan46
Tennessee34

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
GenusXestia

Sources

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

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