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Birch Marble

Apotomis betuletana

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
(c) mortensenk, 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.

Photos you add are credited to you, and you keep the copyright.

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 901, February 666, March 1,043, April 1,641, May 2,366, June 2,580, July 2,761, August 2,374, September 1,743, October 1,301, November 711, December 556.
United States18,642
Alaska18,642
Russia103
Netherlands45
United Kingdom42
Germany42
England41
Finland37
Sachsen29
Denmark27

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
GenusApotomis

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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