Now to make the common name “Pancake Fly”…
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Pancake bee, but yes. I‘m all for it! :D
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Poop Droplet - Acontia discoidea
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Yellow-billed Cuckoo is sometimes called the Rain Crow because it is thought to call before rainstorms.
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Good to know
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Well ‘Bugs’ can refer to any Panarthropod, so it would be wierd even trying to mke such a taxon.
Thoughtful apamea moth.
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Horned Lark—Banding code is “HOLA”
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Hello!
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Bonjur.
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And I have heard Horned Lark hollabacks. (The Arsenal Refuge can be a very noisy place in springtime.)
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Boops boops. I love that fish
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I do too! (Actually found out about it in the Halloween Google Doodle 
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Unequal Cellophane Bee (Colletes inaequalis)
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Bone-eating snotflower (Osedax mucofloris). It’s a worm, not a flower.
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I looked up “katydid” in Wiktionary and found “hepokatti” in Finnish. “Hepo” is “horse”; none of the others had anything I recognized as “horse”, so I clicked on it and found it means “horsecat”.
The German for “turtle” is “Schildkröte”, which means “shieldtoad”.
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Here’s what I’ve found on iNat:
- ‘Satanic leaf-tailed gecko’
- ‘Paradoxical Swimming Frog’
- ‘Tawny crazy ant’
- ‘Pleasing fungus beetles’ (this one is a family)
I’ve been looking for some time for these names in iNat (randomly searching for animals and words that would sound weird in a animal’s name)
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Titmouse. A bird. Who in their right mind names a bird this. The answer…some random 16 year old.
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Wait until you find about the genus Parus…
(In actuality the names of these birds pre-date the usage of the word you’re thinking of ;) )
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One of our local grasshoppers is a Northern Ungee-gungee. Wish I knew what the translation is.
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