Botflies, also known as warble flies, heel flies, and gadflies, are a family of flies known as the Oestridae. Their larvae are internal parasites of mammals, some species growing in the host's flesh and others within the gut. Dermatobia hominis is the only species of botfly known to parasitize humans routinely, though other species of flies cause myiasis in humans.
The common carpet or white-banded toothed carpet is a moth of the family Geometridae. The species was first described by Otto Friedrich Müller in 1764. It is found throughout the Palearctic and the Near East. In North America it ranges across the northern tier of the United States plus every province and territory of Canada.
Uku Masing was an Estonian philosopher. He was a significant figure in Estonian religious philosophy. Masing also wrote poetry, mostly on religious issues. Masing authored one novel, Rapanui vabastamine ehk Kajakad jumalate kalmistul in the late 1930s, which was published posthumously in 1989. As a folklorist, he was a distinguished researcher of fairy tales, contributing to the international Encyclopedia of the Folktale. He was awarded the Righteous Among The Nations by Yad Vashem and the Israeli Supreme Court for his participation during the Holocaust in helping a Jew in Estonia escape capture from 1941 until the end of the war. His actions exposed him to great danger during this period requiring him to meet with his friend as well as lying to the Gestapo.
Larentiinae is a subfamily of moths containing roughly 5,800 species that occur mostly in the temperate regions of the world. They are generally considered a subfamily of the geometer moth family (Geometridae) and are divided into a few large or good-sized tribes, and numerous very small or even monotypic ones which might not always be valid. Well-known members are the "pug moths" of the Eupitheciini and the "carpets", mainly of the Cidariini and Xanthorhoini. The subfamily was described by Philogène Auguste Joseph Duponchel in 1845.
Galium boreale or northern bedstraw is a perennial plant species of the Rubiaceae family. It is widespread over the temperate and subarctic regions of Europe, Asia and North America including most of Canada and the northern United States.
Epirrhoe tristata, the small argent and sable, is a moth of the genus Epirrhoe in the family Geometridae. The species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae.
Epirrhoe rivata, the wood carpet, is a moth of the genus Epirrhoe in the family Geometridae. It is widespread in Europe, ranging to Armenia in the south.
Atractopyge is a genus of trilobites that lived in what would be Asia and Europe from the middle Ordovician to the early Devonian from 472 to 412.3 mya, existing for approximately 59.7 million years.
Leiki Loone, is an Estonian mathematician specialising in applications of functional analysis in theory of summability and in the structure theory of topological vector spaces.
Epirrhoe is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae erected by Jacob Hübner in 1825.
Xanthorhoini is a tribe of geometer moths under subfamily Larentiinae. The tribe was described by Pierce in 1914.
Epirrhoe galiata, the galium carpet, is a moth of the family Geometridae.
Epirrhoe hastulata is a moth of the family Geometridae.
Epirrhoe pupillata is a moth of the family Geometridae. It is known from the mountains of Europe to central Asia, Mongolia and Siberia.
Epirrhoe molluginata is a moth of the family Geometridae. It is found from the southern part of central Europe to the Caucasus.
Artur "Ats" Amon was an Estonian basketball player. He competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.
Epirrhoe plebeculata is a species of geometrid moth in the family Geometridae. It is found in North America.
Epirrhoe sperryi, the small argent and sable, is a species of geometrid moth in the family Geometridae. It is found in North America.
Tõnu Möls was an Estonian mathematician and biologist.
Hillar Palamets was an Estonian historian and radio presenter.
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