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Olive Pearl

Udea olivalis

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
(c) paulbowyer, 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 604, February 446, March 698, April 1,099, May 1,584, June 1,728, July 1,849, August 1,590, September 1,167, October 871, November 476, December 372.
United States12,483
Alaska12,483
United Kingdom543
England474
Austria50
Russia46
Switzerland41
Scotland40
France29
Netherlands29

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
GenusUdea

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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