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Barberry Fly

Rhagoletis meigenii

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

28 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 31, February 23, March 36, April 57, May 82, June 90, July 96, August 83, September 61, October 45, November 25, December 19.
United States737
Alaska649
Canada82
Nova Scotia77
New York38
Germany35
Pennsylvania14
Massachusetts14
Poland12
New Jersey10

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