Fuzzbomb - _TNY_8186
As you might've noticed, I like to compare Swedish and English common names for inverts and here we have an interesting pair.
In English, this is a brindled beauty (Lycia hirtaria) where "brindled" refers to the striped colouration.
In Swedish it's more about texture and season with "lurvig vintermätare" where "lurvig" actually means shaggy, "vinter" is winter and "mätare" is what we call all geometrid moths and means measurer because of the way the larvae move. The family name "Geometridae" literally means measuring the earth, btw.
This is a male "shaggy winter measurer" then and he has very nice antennae, but right here he is sleeping outside my kitchen window so they are tucked away.
Fuzzbomb - _TNY_8186
As you might've noticed, I like to compare Swedish and English common names for inverts and here we have an interesting pair.
In English, this is a brindled beauty (Lycia hirtaria) where "brindled" refers to the striped colouration.
In Swedish it's more about texture and season with "lurvig vintermätare" where "lurvig" actually means shaggy, "vinter" is winter and "mätare" is what we call all geometrid moths and means measurer because of the way the larvae move. The family name "Geometridae" literally means measuring the earth, btw.
This is a male "shaggy winter measurer" then and he has very nice antennae, but right here he is sleeping outside my kitchen window so they are tucked away.