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Clouded-bordered Brindle

Apamea crenata

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 6,175, February 4,561, March 7,146, April 11,243, May 16,210, June 17,676, July 18,914, August 16,266, September 11,942, October 8,914, November 4,871, December 3,807.
United States127,726
Alaska127,726
United Kingdom621
England330
Scotland223
Russia194
Switzerland106
Finland93
Italy86
Austria83

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
FamilyCutworm Moths and Allies · Noctuidae
GenusApamea

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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