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Coltsfoot Fly

Acidia cognata

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

28 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.

Photos you add are credited to you, and you keep the copyright.

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 67, February 50, March 78, April 122, May 177, June 192, July 206, August 177, September 130, October 97, November 53, December 41.
United States1,391
Alaska1,391
Austria66
Canada49
Steiermark42
Germany32
United Kingdom30
England25
Nova Scotia21
Finland19

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
FamilyFruit Flies · Tephritidae
GenusAcidia

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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