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Blood Droplet Burnet

Zygaena minos

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

24 photos

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.January 267, February 197, March 309, April 485, May 700, June 763, July 817, August 702, September 516, October 385, November 210, December 164.
United States5,514
Alaska5,514
Russia352
Nizhny Novgorod Oblast67
Denmark54
Kirov Oblast45
Sweden40
Moscow Oblast39
Chuvashia31
Lithuania28

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
FamilyBurnet Moths · Zygaenidae
GenusZygaena

Sources

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