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FILE – In this July 28, 2008, file photo, a female Lymantria dispar moth lays her eggs on the trunk of a tree in the Salmon River State Forest in Hebron, Conn. In July 2021, the Entomological Society of America announced it is dropping the common name of this destructive insect that is also an ethnic slur against a group of people: the gypsy moth. (AP Photo/Bob Child, File)
Bug experts are dropping the common name of a destructive insect because it’s considered an ethnic slur: the gypsy moth.
The Entomological Society of America, which oversees the common names of bugs, is getting rid of the common name of that critter and the lesser-known gypsy ant. The group this week announced that for the first time it changed a common name of an insect because it was offensive. In the past they’ve only reassigned names that weren’t scientifically accurate.
Insect scientists want your help renaming bugs with racist names
Yes, you can help. No, Buggy McBugface (probably) isn t going to happen.
By
Adam Rosenberg
on July 10, 2021
Meet the Lymantria dispar, as this moth will now be known until a new common name is finalized.
Credit: Hans Lang/imageBROKER/Shutterstock
The insect science group announced on Wednesday that the insects formally known as
Aphaenogaster araneoides and
Lymantria dispar will no longer be referred to as gypsy ants and gypsy moths, respectively. The word that appears in each insect s common name is a racial slur for Romani people, and the ESA has decided that its use has no place in the modern world.
Associated Press
A Lymantria dispar moth – also known as a gypsy moth – lays eggs on a tree trunk in the Salmon River State Forest in Hebron, Conn. Previous Next
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Gypsy moth to be renamed
Associated Press
Bug experts are dropping the common name of a destructive insect because it s considered an ethnic slur – the gypsy moth.
The Entomological Society of America, which oversees the common names of bugs, is getting rid of the common name of that critter and the lesser-known gypsy ant.
The group last week announced that for the first time it changed a common name of an insect because it was offensive. In the past they ve only reassigned names that weren t scientifically accurate.
Gypsy first, entomologists dropping offensive bug names
by
The New York Times
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Today at 3:46 a.m.
On Wednesday, the Entomological Society of America announced that it was removing gypsy moth and gypsy ant as recognized common names for two insects. For Ethel Brooks, a Romani scholar, the move is long overdue.
As a child in New Hampshire, Brooks loved watching worms and caterpillars crawl across her hand. But one particular caterpillar, the hairy larvae of the species Lymantria dispar, terrified her. The larvae would swarm and strip the leaves from a tree, leaving behind so much destruction that people sometimes called them a plague. But no one blamed L. dispar. Instead they blamed gypsy moth caterpillars, the species common name.