Latest posts tagged with #Putukas on Bluesky
since each individual #processionary follows the animal in front, #Fabre led a column to the top of a flower pot, and once the circle was complete, removed the extras. The ones in the now circle followed each other round and round for a week (they died, he could be savage).
#Insect #Putukas
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in #Estonia they have increased over the same period. Since both nations are equally savage in their sense of road rulership, it could be explained by higher respective degrees of urban flight and rural exodus. Part of a lepidopteran group. See also #Paabusilma.
#Nature #Loodus
#Insect #Putukas
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#Vaablase (Vaablane)
#Tallinn #Mustamäe #Sääse
#Sawfly, hornet. Probably the European hornet, #VespaCrabro common in #Estonia. Part of an insect street-name group. See #Kiili.
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#Nature #Loodus
#Animal #Loom
#Insect #Putukas
#Sirptiiva (Sirptiib)
#Tallinn #Pirita #Lepiku
#HookTipMoth, dozens of ’em: #KkaseSirptiib, pebble hook-tip, #DrepanaFalcataria; #HambuneSirptiib, scalloped hook-tip, #FalcariaLacertinaria, and many, many more... Part of a lepidopteran group. See also #Suru.
#Animal #Loom
#Insect #Putukas
#Silmiku (Silmik)
#Tallinn #Pirita #Lepiku
#Satyr, #WoodNymph (sorry to raise your hopes: a #satyrid, more prosaically known as brown butterfly), or something with eyes. Part of a #lepidopteran group. See also #Sinitiiva.
#Nature #Loodus
#Animal #Loom
#Insect #Putukas
#Uneliblika (Uneliblikas)
#Tallinn #Pirita #Lepiku
#Largechequeredskipper (lit. sleep-butterfly), #HeteropterusMorpheus (someone in the Tallinn Street Name Commission really likes butterflies). Part of a lepidopteran group. See also #Vaksiku.
#Animal #Loom
#Insect #Putukas
has it that they’re never around when you need ’em, both species are quite common in #Estonia), #HeodesVirgaureae. Part of a #lepidopteran group. See also #Leediku.
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Nature #Loodus
#Animal #Loom
#Insect #Putukas
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#Liblika (Liblikas)
#Tallinn #Kristiine #Lilleküla #Linnu
#Butterfly.
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Nature #Loodus
#Animal #Loom
#Insect #Putukas
a #lepidopteran group. See also #Sügislase (or, why not, #Sipelga).
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Nature #Loodus
#Insect #Putukas
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and not #buttermaggots? (Actually, the word comes from #OldFrench: #chatepelose, hairy cat (reminiscent of #WoollyBears, see #Piksepeni), later modified by the verb #piller, to pillage, plunder, reflected in the Est. name: #röövik, plunderer, robber, etc.). See also #Kedriku.
#Insect #Putukas
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from a perhaps late-19th C spread of international #zoological #nomenclature. I could look it up, but do you really want me to? Family includes #BistonBetularia of #English ‘pollution as evolutionary agent’ fame. Part of a lepidopteran group. See also #Villkäpa.
#Nature #Loodus
#Insect #Putukas
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Part of a lepidopteran group. See #Kedriku.
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Nature #Loodus
#Animal #Loom
#Insect #Putukas
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selection pressures. Prefer areas somewhat moist. Part of a lepidopteran group. See #Kedriku.
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Nature #Loodus
#Animal #Loom
#Insect #Putukas
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#Sámi). Strictly, a #WoollyBear: #caterpillar of the #Arctiidae moth family, but also name of the scarlet tiger moth itself, #CallimorphaDominula and probably used, as in #English, for a variety of hairy caterpillars. Part of a #lepidopteran group. See also #Päevakoera.
#Insect #Putukas
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the ant body is segmented, or that they hew (read ‘bite’) off pieces of plant. Part of an #insect street-name group. See also #Parmu.
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Nature #Loodus
#Animal #Loom
#Insect #Putukas
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#Herilase (Herilane)
#Tallinn #Mustamäe #Mustamäe
Wasp. Just next door to #Lepatriinu. #Etymology unsure, perhaps a #Baltic loanword related to #Lithuanian #širšė (hornet). Given that #heris:here means scoundrel or wicked, its association is very tempting…
#Nature #Loodus
#Insect #Putukas
#Öölase (Öölane)
#Tallinn #Pirita #Lepiku
Noctuid owlet moth (numerous species). Part of a lepidopteran group. Lit. night-time being. See #Kannustiiva.
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Nature #Loodus
#Animals #Loomad
#Insect #Putukas
#Kumalase (Kumalane)
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Pääsküla
Bumblebee, aka #kimalane. The usual term for a bee is #mesilane (± honey-dweller, but see #Kirilase). Odd, for a social insect, they’ve left this street on its own.
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#Animals #Loomad
#Insect #Putukas
#sääsekurnaja, literally a gnat-strainer or gnat-distresser... And ‘to make a mountain out of a molehill’ is sääsest elevanti tegema, or ‘make an elephant out of a mosquito’. Part of an insect street-name group. See also #Vaablase.
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
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#Mesila (Mesila)
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Pääsküla #Kivimäe
Apiary (lit. place of honey, see #Hiiela).
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Agriculture #PõlluMajandus
#Nature #Loodus
#Insect #Putukas
#Food #Toit
