Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/2018 April 10

= April 10 =

Plant eating insect
What is the name of this specie ? https://preview.ibb.co/msEy7H/IMG_5173.jpg --39.46.190.111 (talk) 14:45, 10 April 2018 (UTC)
 * It would help to know where this was seen. There are hundreds of varieties of hawkmoth. That could be a hippotion celerio.--Shantavira|feed me 16:01, 10 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Lahore, Pakistan on a lemon tree. --39.55.162.205 (talk) 16:24, 10 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Papilio demoleus commonly has citrus plants as hosts, and some of the instars of its larvae look rather like that. Deor (talk) 02:10, 11 April 2018 (UTC)
 * [pedantic rage]"specie" is not the singular of "species". Specie means metal coins. [/pedantic rage]"Iapetus (talk) 09:39, 11 April 2018 (UTC)
 * The words specie, species and specific all share the same Latin root. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 12:29, 11 April 2018 (UTC)
 * So do raptor and rapture, but you wouldn't want to mix them up. Iapetus (talk) 15:53, 11 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Yes, as well as rapt, rape and rapid. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 16:08, 11 April 2018 (UTC)
 * "Rapid" is from the Latin rapidus, "hasty".  "Rapt" is from the Latin rapere, "to seize". 92.19.175.225 (talk) 13:37, 13 April 2018 (UTC)
 * The word rapidus also comes from rapere. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 13:52, 13 April 2018 (UTC)