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Yellow-faced Bell

Notocelia cynosbatella

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

28 photos

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.January 888, February 656, March 1,027, April 1,616, May 2,331, June 2,541, July 2,719, August 2,339, September 1,717, October 1,282, November 700, December 547.
United States18,404
Alaska18,364
United Kingdom385
England341
Germany208
France196
Switzerland139
Russia113
Austria110
Finland77

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
GenusNotocelia

Sources

Remember the name next time.

Practise Yellow-faced Bell with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.