Wikipedia photo of the grizzled skipper, Pyrgus malvae, by Ivar Leidus.

Wikipedia photo of the white-spotted rose beetle, Oxythyrea funesta, by Ivar Leidus.

Wikipedia photo of a male birch mocha, Cyclophora albipunctata by M. Virtala

#Täpiku (Täpik)
#Tallinn #Pirita #Lepiku
Dotted or speckled. But probably short for, in order, #VäikeTäpikpunnpea, the grizzled skipper (as the late [drowned at ...
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#Esku (Esku) #Update #Värskendus
#Tallinn #Pirita #Lepiku
Old farm/man’s name. Probably from an early #Scandinavian name, Askel, Æskil, Askil, Eskil, Áskæll, Áskell, short forms of #ON #Ásketill, broken down to mean #GodsHelmet (#áss [god], and #ketill, [helmet or kettle]). This, in Estonian,
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#Lumiku (Lumik)
#Tallinn #Pirita #Lepiku
#AdmiralButterfly. Two main species in #Estonia: #haavalumik, the poplar admiral, #LimenitisPopuli, and #väikelumik, the white admiral, #LCamilla, whose numbers, oddly, have decreased considerably in #France, mainly due to roadkill in forest areas, while
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#ViimneReliikvia, The Last Relic, by #GrigoriKromanov (1969). The #Estonian present-day first name #Piret derives from #Birgitta/#Pirita. One of #Tallinn’s 8 Districts (Linnaosad). It includes the following #Asumid (Sub-districts): Iru, #Kloostrimetsa, #Kose, #Laiaküla, #Lepiku, #Maarjamäe,
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#Kirilase (Kirilane)
#Tallinn #Pirita #Lepiku
As #McCruiskeen would say: “quite a pancake this one”. After a long process of elimination, given its almost totally #lepidopteran neighbors, we can almost certainly exclude the following fancies: a) a ‘k’ omitted from #kiriklane, churchman;
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#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

#Kuldtiiva (Kuldtiib)
#Tallinn #Pirita #Lepiku
Literally a #Goldwing, where they’re probably not referring to armchairs on wheels, but butterflies of the blue or copper varieties: #ValgetäppKuldtiib, small or common copper, #LycaenaPhlaeas, and LeekKuldtiib, the scarce copper (despite rumors
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#Suru (Suru)
#Tallinn #Pirita #Lepiku
1) Swarming of gnats; 2) #Press, throng; 3) #HawkMoth (#Sphingidae). Has to be No.3. Who would foist the others onto their tenants (but see #Sipelga)? No.2 might have been apt during the collective apartment period, but No.1? See Sipelga, dammit! Part of
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#Kloostrimetsa (Kloostrimets) #Asum
#Tallinn #Pirita #Kloostrimetsa #Lepiku #Laiaküla
#Abbey, cloister, monastery, convent woods. Passes by #Pirita convent.

#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Religion #Religioon
#Forest #Mets

#Kannustiiva (Kannustiib)
#Tallinn #Pirita #Lepiku
Two sorts, the #JalakaKannustiib, the white letter hairstreak, #StrymonidiaWAlbum; and #ToomingaKannustiib, the black hairstreak butterfly, #SPruni. Part of a swarm of butterflies in the Lepiku District. Why are their young called #caterpillars
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#Vaksiku (Vaksik)
#Tallinn #Pirita #Lepiku
#Looper, #caterpillar (and adult) of the #Geometer moths. Bit complicated this one: #vaksik comes from #vaks, a span. So possibly a translation from #German, #Spanner (word also used for shoe-trees and peeping-toms). But since the name in #Latin
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Following the correction pointed out by saepurusass.bsky.social, the original entry for #Teelehe (bsky.app/profile/tall...) has been rewritten and this one is also changed to:

#Karuslase (Karuslane)
#Tallinn #Pirita #Lepiku
#WoodTigerMoth, whose full name is
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#Karuslase (Karuslane)
#Tallinn #Pirita #Lepiku
#WoodTigerMoth, whose full name is teelehe-karuslane (lit. [±] tea-leaf bearlike one), #ParasemiaPlantaginis, In the footsteps of #BistonBetularia, males occur in two different color patterns: yellow and white, and are thus studied for
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#Piksepeni (Piksepeni)
#Tallinn #Pirita #Lepiku
Lit. #Thunderstorm #dog (#peni [or penni or pini] is an alternative or #dialect word for dog, more common in the southern half of #Estonia, cf. #Livonian #piņ, but see also Eastern (Ter?) #Sámi #pienneoi in #Eerikneeme, or #beana in Northern(?)
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#Põldma (?)
#Tallinn #Pirita #Lepiku
Another former farm name, #põldmaa would be arable land and it was not uncommon for the last ‘a’ to be dropped from the -maa in farm/family names.

#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#Agriculture #PõlluMajandus
#FarmNames #TaludeNimede

#Merikanni (Merikann)
#Tallinn #Pirita #Lepiku
#Armeria, a rock plant. Only #RoosaMerikann, the thrift, sea thrift or sea pink, #ArmeriaMaritima, is common in #Estonia.

#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Nature #Loodus
#Plants #Taimed
#Flowers #Lilled

#Villkäpa (Villkäpp)
#Tallinn #Pirita #Lepiku
Probably hele-villkäpp, the pale tussock moth, #CallitearaPudibunda. #Pudibunda, or modest, shy, perhaps for the habit of the #caterpillar (once known in hop-picking times as the ‘hop-dog’) curling up into a (protective) circle/ball? See also #Öölase.

#Kupra (Kupar)
#Tallinn #Pirita #Mähe #Aedlinn #Lepiku
#Boll, #capsule (on plant). Not exactly a plant or flower itself, but part of the #Mähe flower-name group, see #Kõdra.

#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Nature #Loodus
#Plants #Taimed

#Kedriku (Kedrik)
#Tallinn #Pirita #Lepiku
#Moth of the #lasiocampid family, aka #eggars or snout moths. Common to #Estonia are lehekedrik, the lappet, #GastropachaQuercifolia; männikedrik, the pine-tree lappet, #DendrolimusPini; rohukedrik, the drinker, #EuthrixPotatoria
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#Tallinn #Pirita #Lepiku
#Leediku (Leedik)
#Pyralid or snout moth. Numerous species, including the ubiquitous iniquitous #kirjuleedik (#kirju meaning variegated, mottled,, etc., see #Kirilase) or meal moth, #PyralisFarinalis. Part of a lepidopteran group. See also #Lumiku.

#Insects #Putukad

street and Sub-district were thus named before his (and obviously her) birth after the #Lepiku farm in the then village of Lepiku.
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#FarmNames #TaludeNimede
#Nature #Loodus
#Trees #Puud
#Forests #Metsad
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#Lepiku (Lepik) #Asum #Sub-district
#Alder grove. It would be satisfying for it to be after the #Estonian poet #KaljuLepik (1920-1999), buried in nearby #Metsakalmistu cemetery, and father of #AinoLepikVonWiren,
#Estonian ambassador to the Republic of #Ireland (#Éire), but both
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#Valguta (?)
#Tallinn #Pirita #Lepiku
Farm name. The ‘Val’ is said to relate to #valgma, a place for berthing boats between lines of rocks extending into the sea (see Lauteri A.) but at 2 km from the coast that’s a bit of a stretch. Prob. a farm dependency along the lines of, e.g. Fahl’s/Wahl’s Gut.

Esku (Esku)
#Tallinn #Pirita #Lepiku
Old farm and man’s name. Said to come from the expression #jumalakiiver,h ‘God’s helmet’, perhaps from #Russian #кивер (kiver: #shako, itself from the #Hungarian for ‘peak’, #csákó), so cannot date much earlier than the 1870s, while #Rajandi’s #RaamatNimedest
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#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

#Sompa (Sompa)
#Tallinn #Pirita #Lepiku
Named after a farm that used to be there. Perhaps related to the adverb #sompa, foggy, dark or gloomy, or #somp (muddy pool), or a possible shortening of #soonpea, end of the marsh, with an old gentive -n, but origins lost in the mists of time...
#TaludeNimede

#Harksaba (Harksaba)
#Tallinn #Pirita #Lepiku
#Kite (bird). Lit. forktail. Two species breeding in #Estonia: #MustHarksaba, black kite, Milvus migrans and #PunaHHarksaba, red kite, M. milvus.
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#Nature #Loodus
#Animals #Loomad
#Birds #Linnud

#Suurekivi (Suurekivi)
#Tallinn #Pirita #Lepiku
Large stone. Former farm name after the eponymous erratic boulder (see #Rändrahnu) at ///thank.crabby.pioneers. For other erratic-themed locations, see #Tulekivi.
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Geology #Geoloogia
#Erratics #Rändrahnud
#Rocks #Kivid