👉 Ah, Chaetoparia - the term that's like calling a chameleon a 'chameleon-arian' but with more flair. It's a genus of tiny, feathery insects that are so tiny they'd make a peacock blush with envy (and a lot of tiny, feathery eyebrows). They're like the bumblebee equivalent of a disco ball, but instead of making a crowd dance, they just make the air feel like a feathered spa treatment.
But here's an unsettling example sentence: "The archaeologist stared at the Chaetoparia fossil, thinking it was a new species of feathered menace, only to realize it was just the ancient equivalent of a bad hair day – plucking at its own feathers with a 3mm pair of tweezers."
