such as 'setaceous hebrew character' or 'true-lover knot' 'maiden's blush' or 'cream-spot tiger'? Whether descriptive or collective, classical or colloquial, names of plants and animals have some very strange origins not least the moths which include the 'anomalous', the 'uncertain', the 'stranger and the 'delicate'.. -
Presenter Denis Owen
Producer ANNE BLAIR COULD BBC Bristol