Category: Terms
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Names of things
Coming from birding, taxonomical names for Lepidoptera suddenly take on a whole new significance. Bird identification is easy (sorry, fellow birders but it really is). Pop to your local bookstore and you’ll find an wealth of field guides to help out. Or forget the whole “book” thing (it’s so passé): download an app or go…
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Basic Taxonomy
Sheesh, this blog is only 2 weeks old and this post is already 6 months overdue. Joke! I’m trying to keep everything here as readable as possible, but now I’ve written a few posts, I’m finding it hard not to use the odd technical term. And while I can keep adding footnotes to explain them,…
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Terms to confuse you
One of the oddities in Lepidoptera-speak is the macro/micro distinction. As you’d expect from the name, micromoths are typically small and macromoths are typically big. But 10 seconds later you find out that there are some truly giant micromoths, which makes you wonder what numbskull chose the terms in the first place. So what’s the…
BC Moths 