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Frosted Yellow

Isturgia limbaria

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

25 photos

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.January 18, February 13, March 20, April 32, May 46, June 51, July 54, August 47, September 34, October 26, November 14, December 11.
United States366
Alaska366
France175
Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur83
Germany50
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes48
Occitanie31
Italy30
Nordrhein-Westfalen23
Nord-Ovest19

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
FamilyGeometer Moths · Geometridae
GenusIsturgia

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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