Time for a Name Campaign

 

There are so many campaigns these days, given the lamentable state of the world, that you may not have the energy to join a new one. But it is surely time that the Old Lady moth was renamed. It's a long time, even in Greece, since elderly women dressed in clothes like this poor old moth's.

It's as out-of-date as the road sign for the elderly which has often been re-imagined to show what a spirited lot we over-70s now are:

And our grandchildren made the point by giving Penny two good children's books as a present, one about a traditional Granny from times past like the Old Lady moth's name, and the other a thoroughly contemporary funster:

Let's see.  There's recently been a very successful move to give micro-moths English/vernacular names as well as their cumbersome Graeco-Latin ones which help international scientific co-operation but can intimidate the amateur. That's well-explained by its prime mover below. Maybe reform in the world of insect nomenclature is on the march.

 

Meanwhile, here are some of my other visitors - a Rosy Rustic, a Small Dusty Wave (very good name indeed!),  a Yellow Shell and the tiny little Least Carpet.