#tagfalter

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[novalin]

German why?! TIL that moths are butterflies.

I just learned that the term moth (Motte) in German doesn't exist.

So in the past I thought:

Butterfly: Schmetterling (in German)

Moth: motte

But no it's:

Butterfly: Tagfalter

Lepidoptera: Schmetterling

Moth: Nachtfalter

Both butterflies and moths are Lepidoptera. But in German we commonly use the terms wrong. Ugh.

I was searching for a specific moth (at least by the looks of it I thought it was a moth). German google told me "Gelbfalter" and it said it was a "butterfly/Schmetterling". My partner found "brimstone moth". But when I turned the wiki page of brimstone moth to German it said Gelbfalter. So this was I found out that moths and butterflies are both "Schmetterlinge/Lepidoptera". I was so confused. German. Why.

My life was a lie.

[podartists]

Deutsche Tagfalter | Alfred Edmund Brehm | Die Insekten, Tausendfüssler und Spinnen (1877) | Flickr

[handwerkstatt]

Rostfarbener Dickkopffalter (Ochlodes venatus, fam. Hesperiidae)

[superbnature]

Hide and seek by norlies http://bit.ly/2RFTHp5

[superbnature]

Green hairstreak by hugoareal http://ift.tt/2n71xHv

[hobbyfotobu]

Kleiner Mormon Über Flickr: Papilio polytes

[velthurvik]

Kleiner Perlmutterfalter gelb gefleckter Mitbewohner im Garten, ein kleiner Perlmutterfalter.

Issoria lathonia (LINNAEUS, 1758)