"Jeff Miller" wrote in message
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...i have a real fondness for fellas like
warren, makela, walt, pj, wayno, you, wolfgang, etc. who probably
know
the scientific details...

Not guilty and falsely accused, counselor. I can correctly paste the
Latin binomials on exactly two bugs......one of them because I think
it's a good idea to know the name of anything that looks big enough to
hurt me, and the other because I've never heard it referred to by any
other name.

That said, I agree that there is no good practical reason to make a
fetish of learning all of the bugs' true names (and it's probably bad
juju anyway), but some of us do derive some satisfaction from that
sort of things for various more esoteric reasons. I've always been in
love with trees. I've forgotten a lot in the last twenty years, but I
used to know the Latin binomials for virtually all of the native
species as well as a few dozen more or less common introduced species
in this area. It never did me any earthly good whatsoever beyond
boring companions nearly to death with a never ending string of what
they doubtless considered pretentious gibberish.......reason enough,
in my book.

Wolfgang