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Banded Burdock Fly

Terellia tussilaginis

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
(c) wildhamandpetersham, some rights reserved (CC BY)

25 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 124, February 92, March 143, April 226, May 325, June 355, July 380, August 326, September 240, October 179, November 98, December 76.
United States2,563
Alaska2,563
Finland62
United Kingdom55
England53
Uusimaa52
France47
Russia43
Germany32
Netherlands32

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
GenusTerellia

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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