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Garden Pebble

Evergestis forficalis

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 1,109, February 819, March 1,284, April 2,020, May 2,912, June 3,175, July 3,398, August 2,922, September 2,145, October 1,601, November 875, December 684.
United States22,945
Alaska22,945
United Kingdom730
England663
France182
Denmark129
Germany118
Russia95
Spain65
Syddanmark58

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
FamilyCrambid Snout Moths · Crambidae
GenusEvergestis

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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