▲ 136 ▼ Botanic nomenclature (lemmy.world) submitted 8 months ago by angrystego@lemmy.world to c/science_memes@mander.xyz 15 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[+] lvxferre@mander.xyz 25 points 8 months ago (5 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source hideshow 5 child comments replies: [–] teft@piefed.social 17 points 8 months ago* (4 children) Pretty sure that temporaria is related in this case to temporal, not temporary. It'd be like frog of the times or frog of the right season or something like that. I could be wrong though. As for little shits I would try something with copro- in it. That's the greek word for shit. Like coprophage is a shiteater or Copromorphidae are a family of moths that have shit like camouflage. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [+] lvxferre@mander.xyz 11 points 8 months ago* (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] LeapSecond@lemmy.zip 11 points 8 months ago Looking for the backstory of the frog name, here's another gem from here. Now, the caterpillar remains alive for a while as the baby wasps eat it from the inside, bending and squirming as it becomes desiccated and dies. These wiggly movements made the scientists think of Shakira, and thus the species Aleiodes shakirae immortalized the Colombian singer in the annals of zoology. Zoologists are fun. permalink fedilink source parent [–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago (1 child) I’m still a huge fan of fruit flies. Drosophila melanogaster= yellow bellied garbage lover permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] angrystego@lemmy.world [S] 6 points 8 months ago Black bellied, but yeah! permalink fedilink source parent
[–] teft@piefed.social 17 points 8 months ago* (4 children) Pretty sure that temporaria is related in this case to temporal, not temporary. It'd be like frog of the times or frog of the right season or something like that. I could be wrong though. As for little shits I would try something with copro- in it. That's the greek word for shit. Like coprophage is a shiteater or Copromorphidae are a family of moths that have shit like camouflage. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [+] lvxferre@mander.xyz 11 points 8 months ago* (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] LeapSecond@lemmy.zip 11 points 8 months ago Looking for the backstory of the frog name, here's another gem from here. Now, the caterpillar remains alive for a while as the baby wasps eat it from the inside, bending and squirming as it becomes desiccated and dies. These wiggly movements made the scientists think of Shakira, and thus the species Aleiodes shakirae immortalized the Colombian singer in the annals of zoology. Zoologists are fun. permalink fedilink source parent [–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago (1 child) I’m still a huge fan of fruit flies. Drosophila melanogaster= yellow bellied garbage lover permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] angrystego@lemmy.world [S] 6 points 8 months ago Black bellied, but yeah! permalink fedilink source parent
[+] lvxferre@mander.xyz 11 points 8 months ago* (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] LeapSecond@lemmy.zip 11 points 8 months ago Looking for the backstory of the frog name, here's another gem from here. Now, the caterpillar remains alive for a while as the baby wasps eat it from the inside, bending and squirming as it becomes desiccated and dies. These wiggly movements made the scientists think of Shakira, and thus the species Aleiodes shakirae immortalized the Colombian singer in the annals of zoology. Zoologists are fun. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] LeapSecond@lemmy.zip 11 points 8 months ago Looking for the backstory of the frog name, here's another gem from here. Now, the caterpillar remains alive for a while as the baby wasps eat it from the inside, bending and squirming as it becomes desiccated and dies. These wiggly movements made the scientists think of Shakira, and thus the species Aleiodes shakirae immortalized the Colombian singer in the annals of zoology. Zoologists are fun. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago (1 child) I’m still a huge fan of fruit flies. Drosophila melanogaster= yellow bellied garbage lover permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] angrystego@lemmy.world [S] 6 points 8 months ago Black bellied, but yeah! permalink fedilink source parent
[–] angrystego@lemmy.world [S] 6 points 8 months ago Black bellied, but yeah! permalink fedilink source parent