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Mugwort Leaf-miner

Trypeta artemisiae

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

25 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 31, February 23, March 36, April 57, May 82, June 89, July 96, August 82, September 60, October 45, November 25, December 19.
United States646
Alaska646
Lithuania33
Vilnius County25
Finland14
United Kingdom13
England13
Denmark9
Russia7
Uusimaa6

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
GenusTrypeta

Sources

Remember the name next time.

Practise Mugwort Leaf-miner with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.