#Sipelga (Sipelgas)
#Tallinn #Mustamäe #Sääse
#Ant. One clever building company decided to entice buyers with the tempting residential name of #Sipelgapesa, Ants’ Nest. Bet that got punters itching to buy. Part of an insect street-name group. See #Sääse. See also #Laikmaa A. and #Lauteri A...
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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#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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#Kuklase (Kuklane)
#Tallinn #Mustamäe #Sääse
Alternative name for #Sipelga, #ant, of the #Formica genus. Also an archaic name for ant, like its variants #kusilane and #kusikuklane, suggesting the smell of pee that antheaps often have (#kusi = urine), ditto in the English name of yore for ant,
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#Roosi (Roos)
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Pääsküla
#Rose, the flower, but also common name for #erysipelas, or #StAntony’sFire which #Estonian folklore says could be got by being frightened by or angry with someone. Despite the tempting similarity to the antsiness of #Sipelga, there is probably zero relation.
#Parmu (Parm)
#Tallinn #Mustamäe #Sääse
Horsefly, gadfly, Tabanidae. Largest of the true flies, major pollinators but nasty biters. #Estonia is home to 1% of the world’s 3000-odd species. Part of an insect street-name group. See also #Sipelga.
#Nature #Loodus
#Animals #Loomad
#Insects #Putukad
