Another group that you may consider is a nag of wives and a jerk of husbands.
The mysterious flowers of Aspidistra elatior are found on the southern Japanese island of Kuroshima.
Trisha asks, “My back yard is infested with gnats, and it’s driving me nuts! Could you please help?”While we frequently use the word “gnats” to refer to any
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This is a list of English terms of venery (venery being an archaic word for hunting), comprising terms from a tradition that arose in the Late Middle Ages, at least partly from the Book of Saint Albans of 1486, a historic list of “company terms”.
Gnats are very much in need of a public relations department. Actually, a gnat could be one of several different small flying insects that are related in those biology classifications.
Group Names: Antelope: A herd of antelope Ant: A colony or an army of ants Ape: A shrewdness of apes Baboons: A troop of baboons Bacteria: A culture of bacteria Badger: A cete of badgers
1 TR denotes Terry Ross, author of Group Names for Birds 2 CCW denotes Crane C. Walden, [email protected] 3 MG denotes Matt Goers, [email protected], quoting from The Trivia Encyclopedia and Webster’s New Dictionary and Thesaurus, Concise edition (see the bibliography)
Flies, Gnats and Midges. True flies (order Diptera) are an immense group with over 100,000 known species. They all have their hind pair of wings reduced to pin-shaped structures called halteres which act as gyroscopes to maintain balance in flight.