terminology: LBJs and BFTs

JH jhimmel at connix.com
Fri Jul 6 14:33:20 EDT 2001


Another interesting bit of terminology I have heard that has been used to
describe difficult moths and skippers is, "@#!!#$%?!!!"

I believe it's used in the birding world as well.

John
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-----Original Message-----
From: Nick Greatorex-Davies <ngd at ceh.ac.uk>
To: leps-l at lists.yale.edu <leps-l at lists.yale.edu>
Date: Friday, July 06, 2001 2:08 PM
Subject: Re: terminology: LBJs and BFTs


>Stanley A. Gorodenski wrote:
>
>> I was myself perplexed by the ambiguity of the abbreviation LBJ, "little
>> brown job", and how anyone could defend this naming convention.
>
>In reply Kevin Caley wrote:
>
><snip>
>Previously I've only seen LBJ used (very widely) among birders - basically
any
>'enigmatic' (=characterless, it seems!) bird that proves to be extremely
>difficult to identify on first glance.  So, now it's entered the
butterflying
>world?  Could that be due to the huge numbers of birders who are getting
>bored with birds now turning to the 'flying flowers', as is also happening
in
>the UK?  I have recently heard the phrases 'stonking' and 'griped' being
>applied to butterfly viewing, which are also originally birding terms.
><snip>
>
>I've heard the term LBJ many times over the years amongst moth-ers in the
UK. A friend of mine, who is primarily a butterfly person (never was a
birder), has his own term for moths (which he has been getting interested in
enough in the last few years to do some moth trapping) - he calls them BFJs
"Brown Flappy Things". I've tried pointing out to him that many moths are
not brown and Noctuids and others buzz rather than flap, but to no avail. He
still persists !
>
>Nick Greatorex-Davies
>CEH Monks Wood, Huntingdon, UK
>
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