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Meadow Grey

Scoparia pyralella

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

25 photos

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.January 463, February 342, March 536, April 843, May 1,215, June 1,325, July 1,418, August 1,220, September 895, October 668, November 365, December 285.
United States9,577
Alaska9,577
United Kingdom328
England306
Germany201
Russia94
Switzerland93
France67
Bayern60
Denmark55

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
GenusScoparia

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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