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Garden Grass-veneer

Chrysoteuchia culmella

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 6,771, February 5,001, March 7,835, April 12,326, May 17,773, June 19,380, July 20,738, August 17,834, September 13,094, October 9,773, November 5,341, December 4,174.
United States140,039
Alaska140,039
United Kingdom6,222
England5,695
Germany2,374
Russia1,841
France1,046
Denmark758
Netherlands620
Finland618

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
FamilyCrambid Snout Moths · Crambidae
GenusChrysoteuchia

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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