cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/77583
Taylor Swift is now the namesake of a genus of plant-feeding insects from Australia that were previously unknown to science.
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a genus of plant-feeding insects
I thought those were called Swifties.
Sarah Schroeder, a UC Riverside doctoral student in entomology, hopes that naming these insects after the singer will bring attention to the insects themselves and insect conservation more generally.
Psh, that’s stupid.
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Wow, they live their entire lives on the same tree. What is a “she oak” anyway?


