Insects › Casebearing Moths

orache case-bearer

Coleophora saxicolella

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 60, February 44, March 69, April 109, May 157, June 172, July 184, August 158, September 116, October 87, November 47, December 37.
United States1,240
Alaska1,240
Netherlands1
Zeeland1

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
FamilyCasebearing Moths · Coleophoridae
GenusCasebearers · Coleophora

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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