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Fuzzbomb, Pt. 2 - _TNY_8195

If you read my photo desctiptions, you have probably noticed that 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 diffusely stripey 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 in part 1 he was sleeping and had those tucked away here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/46965721274/

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Uploaded on February 8, 2023
Taken on April 21, 2019