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Pepper Maggot

Zonosemata electa

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

26 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 Maryland.January 2, February 2, March 2, April 4, May 5, June 2, July 5, August 2, September 2, October 2, November 2, December 2.
United States171
Maryland28
Virginia24
New York21
Canada16
North Carolina16
Ontario16
Massachusetts11
New Jersey11
Tennessee7

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
GenusZonosemata

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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