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teft@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Pretty sure that temporaria is related 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.

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lvxferre@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

related to temporal, not temporary

That would explain it. But it still sounds funny

Copromorphidae

I stand corrected. Shit-shaped moths!

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- LeapSecond@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.
  
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idiomaddict@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I’m still a huge fan of fruit flies. Drosophila melanogaster= yellow bellied garbage lover

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- angrystego@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Black bellied, but yeah!
  
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