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Southern hayworm

Hypsopygia nostralis

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
(c) sukanya_thanombuddha, 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 Texas.January 32, February 31, March 35, April 66, May 41, June 22, July 18, August 19, September 37, October 75, November 34, December 36.
United States686
Texas364
Louisiana98
Mississippi81
Alabama46
South Africa43
Brazil37
Georgia28
Sao Paulo21
South Carolina16

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
FamilyPyralid Snout Moths · Pyralidae
GenusHayworms · Hypsopygia

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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