I got in a little bit of trouble the other day in school for joking about great tits in my art class because someone brought up weird bird names
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Can anyone guess what the delightful bird-dropping moth looks like? 
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Delightful is not necessarily the word that comes to mind when I think of bird droppings.
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It looks delightfully slimy 
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Devoted horse fly. Who’s he devoted to?
Deduced graphic (moth).
Columella is a snail. Columella is also the axis that a snail’s shell winds around. I sent this to Curious Taxonomy for the “valid word in other context” page, with the subject “valid word in same context”, but he hasn’t updated the site in years. (Columella is also the ossicle homologous to the stapes, when it doesn’t get a blood vessel growing through it, turning it into the stirrup.)
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Short-beaked Beak Sedge seems odd to me. Rhynchospora nitens
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I deduced as much!
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The Oh Boy! Jellyfish, Tamoya ohboya (now unfortunately renamed to the Bonaire Banded Box Jellyfish, but you can see how it looked like here)
The backstory behind this is actually insane. To quote Wikipedia itself -
In order to name the newly discovered species, Coalition on the Public Understanding of Science organized an online competition, which was won by the high school marine biology teacher Lisa Peck, who said: “I bet ‘Oh Boy’ is the first thing said when a biologist or layman encounters the Bonaire Banded Box Jellyfish.”
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Someone’s got to try to say this five times fast: Poecilognathus unimaculatus
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Hotwheels sisyphus (a species of spider)
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Here’s one - There is a genus of frogs called Mini, containing three species from Madagascar - Mini mum (Trying to match minimum), Mini scule, and Mini ature (you’ve probably already guessed it).
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Taxicab beetle.
There’s a freshwater mussel called washboard. First thing I thought of is a washboard bass. Then I realized that’s a mashup of a musical washboard and a washtub bass.
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Have we done the boogie woogie aphids yet?? 
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weird one idk if anyone said this, but one of Inats other names for Kirtlands snake is Kirtland’s wasserchlange. like who made this up?!?!?!?
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Someone German?
“wasserchlange” translates to “water snake”
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See @jmaughn ‘s work here, this is sol hilarious - https://inaturalist.nz/lists/4477974-Ridiculous-Moth-Names
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Police car moth follows taxicab beetle.
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If they were actually two accounts like that, it would be so hilarious.
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There’s actually an obs of M. scule: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/190724945
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Genus auplopus; it sounds like it is going to go 'a plopping" down (That was the first thing I thought when I saw this)!
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/250735-Auplopus
Here are some auplopuses…auplopi? to give you an idea of what they are :)