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Rush Wainscot

Globia algae

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

24 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 305, February 225, March 352, April 554, May 799, June 872, July 933, August 802, September 589, October 440, November 240, December 188.
United States6,298
Alaska6,298
Spain14
País Vasco/Euskadi13
Finland10
Russia10
Pirkanmaa7
Moscow Oblast7
Denmark6
Poland4

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
FamilyCutworm Moths and Allies · Noctuidae
GenusGlobia

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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