Insects

Pale Clouded Yellow

Colias hyale

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 799, February 590, March 924, April 1,454, May 2,096, June 2,286, July 2,446, August 2,103, September 1,544, October 1,153, November 630, December 492.
United States16,520
Alaska16,517
Russia1,525
Germany312
Moscow Oblast165
Altai Krai159
Novosibirsk Oblast154
Poland115
Lithuania108
Ivanovo Oblast103

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

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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