What’s in a name?

Some of our moths have interestingnteresting names. All the bigger speciespecies have an English common name ame as well as their Latin one. Here’sere’s a couple of examples. The he Mother Shipton moth is named amed after a legendary 16th century entury witch, while the lackey has a caterpillar that’s striped like ike the livery of an old-time servant, or lackey.

The brown, yellow and blue ‘coat’ of a lackey caterpillar