moths should become real — The Lappet (Gastropacha quercifolia) has an...

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The Lappet (Gastropacha quercifolia) has an irregular wing shape, allowing them to disguise more easily as leafs in the nature.
Personally, one of the interesting things about this moth is the variance of its names across different languages, as English just doesn’t have one, instead defaulting on the name that it uses for the entire family.

Some languages take on the resemblance to an oak leaf, such as Dutch (Eikenblad, or oak leaf), French (La feuille morte du chêne, or dead oak leaf) or Russian (Коконопряд дуболистный, or oak leaf cocoon-spinner).
Others use the colouring, like German (Kupferglucke, or copper eggar), Danish (Has a variety of names, such as Kobberbrun takspinder, or copper-brown spike-spinner), or Swedish (Rostfärgad bladspinnare, meaning rust-coloured leaf-spinner).
Finnish calls them Pihlajanorsu, meaning rowan elephant, where rowan is the name of one of the bushes the larvae feed on. ‘Elephant’ likely refers to the elongated, snout-like, mouth parts.

Though, not a speaker of most of these languages, so the translation may be incorrect since it was primarily a dictionary look-up of the terms, particularly doubting the Danish one. Many of these use the word 'spinner’ within of them, which is the name of the moth family in these languages, since the caterpillars tend to live in nests spun out of silk.

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