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Hop Vine Snout

Hypena humuli

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 25, February 25, March 40, April 78, May 150, June 70, July 53, August 48, September 50, October 41, November 26, December 23.
United States1,803
Canada1,247
Ontario628
New York346
Quebec235
Michigan160
British Columbia158
Massachusetts129
Wisconsin128
Alberta124

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
FamilyUnderwing, Tiger, Tussock, and Allied Moths · Erebidae
GenusHypena

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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