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Eastern Cherry Fruit Fly

Rhagoletis cingulata

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
(c) tniernberger, no rights reserved (CC0)

27 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.

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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 12, February 8, March 13, April 21, May 30, June 33, July 35, August 30, September 22, October 17, November 9, December 7.
United States443
Alaska238
Canada55
New York44
Ontario40
Massachusetts27
California22
Michigan21
New Jersey16
Pennsylvania14

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
GenusRhagoletis

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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