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Agreeable Tiger Moth

Spilosoma congrua

14,257 observations in the source records

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What the records say

Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in North Carolina.January 73, February 87, March 81, April 130, May 130, June 106, July 99, August 59, September 77, October 76, November 58, December 67.
United States9,731
North Carolina1,325
Virginia1,306
Canada1,184
Tennessee1,015
Maryland899
Ontario737
New York706
Alabama638
Georgia591

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
FamilyUnderwing, Tiger, Tussock, and Allied Moths · Erebidae
GenusSpilosoma

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