Pretty sure that temporaria is related in this case to temporal, not temporary. It’d be like frog of the times or frog of the right season or something like that.
I could be wrong though.
As for little shits I would try something with copro- in it. That’s the greek word for shit. Like coprophage is a shiteater or Copromorphidae are a family of moths that have shit like camouflage.
Looking for the backstory of the frog name, here’s another gem from here.
Now, the caterpillar remains alive for a while as the baby wasps eat it from the inside, bending and squirming as it becomes desiccated and dies. These wiggly movements made the scientists think of Shakira, and thus the species Aleiodes shakirae immortalized the Colombian singer in the annals of zoology.
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Pretty sure that temporaria is related in this case to temporal, not temporary. It’d be like frog of the times or frog of the right season or something like that.
I could be wrong though.
As for little shits I would try something with copro- in it. That’s the greek word for shit. Like coprophage is a shiteater or Copromorphidae are a family of moths that have shit like camouflage.
I’m still a huge fan of fruit flies. Drosophila melanogaster= yellow bellied garbage lover
Black bellied, but yeah!
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Looking for the backstory of the frog name, here’s another gem from here.
Zoologists are fun.