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Sallow Button

Acleris hastiana

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
(c) mariushabenau, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

25 photos

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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 Alaska.January 516, February 381, March 597, April 939, May 1,354, June 1,477, July 1,580, August 1,359, September 998, October 745, November 407, December 318.
United States10,789
Alaska10,671
Canada138
Russia75
United Kingdom49
Alberta42
Nunavut41
England37
California35
Finland35

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
FamilyTortricid Leafroller Moths · Tortricidae
GenusAcleris

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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