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Western Ash Borer

Neoclytus conjunctus

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

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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 California.

United States	320
California	249
Oregon	41
Canada	21
British Columbia	21
Washington	16
Nevada	14

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

Classification

Kingdom	Animals · Animalia
Phylum	Arthropods · Arthropoda
Class	Insects · Insecta
Order	Beetles · Coleoptera
Family	Longhorn Beetles · Cerambycidae
Genus	Neoclytus

Sources

Names, taxonomy and observation counts: www.inaturalist.org
Photos and recordings: the creator and source are on each one.
How much to rely on each source

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

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