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The folk-names of invertebrates

By - Peter Marren

Have we turned our backs on the country names of insects and other invertebrates? To judge from field guides and the lists of new English names for water beetles, soldier-flies and the like, it seems that folk-names are seen as irrelevant, 'unscientific' and best forgotten.

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