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Pale Beauty

Campaea perlata

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 Ontario.January 386, February 396, March 627, April 1,228, May 2,359, June 2,629, July 832, August 1,745, September 1,084, October 648, November 405, December 361.
United States23,153
Canada12,057
Ontario7,757
New York2,557
Pennsylvania2,077
Michigan1,874
Massachusetts1,846
British Columbia1,690
Quebec1,520
Ohio1,485

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
FamilyGeometer Moths · Geometridae
GenusCampaea

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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