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Yellow-faced Fly

Tachina grossa

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

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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 431, February 318, March 498, April 784, May 1,130, June 1,232, July 1,319, August 1,134, September 833, October 622, November 340, December 265.
United States8,907
Alaska8,906
France412
United Kingdom238
Russia213
England162
Bretagne148
Denmark123
Spain102
Italy89

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Physical

  • ExoskeletonHas a hard external skeletonFrom its classification

Classification

KingdomAnimals · Animalia
PhylumArthropods · Arthropoda
ClassInsects · Insecta
OrderFlies · Diptera
FamilyTachinid Flies · Tachinidae
GenusTachina

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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