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The Streamer

Anticlea derivata

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

25 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 Alaska.January 1,785, February 1,318, March 2,065, April 3,249, May 4,684, June 5,108, July 5,466, August 4,701, September 3,451, October 2,576, November 1,408, December 1,100.
United States36,910
Alaska36,910
United Kingdom429
England359
France186
Germany164
Russia101
Spain55
Denmark55
Scotland52

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
FamilyGeometer Moths · Geometridae
GenusAnticlea

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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