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Pebble Hook-tip

Drepana falcataria

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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 5,112, February 3,776, March 5,916, April 9,307, May 13,420, June 14,633, July 15,659, August 13,466, September 9,887, October 7,380, November 4,033, December 3,152.
United States105,741
Alaska105,741
Russia777
United Kingdom574
England523
Austria495
Germany435
Steiermark342
Poland223
Finland171

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
FamilyHooktip and False Owlet Moths · Drepanidae
GenusDrepana

Sources

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Practise Pebble Hook-tip 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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