Simon Hamilton

@tallinnstreets.bsky.social

5 months ago

#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

Simon Hamilton

@tallinnstreets.bsky.social

5 months ago

#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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