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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 ...

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 Sunday, July 11, 2021 1:00 am 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 tim...

KXLY July 9, 2021 11:30 AM By SETH BORENSTEIN, AP Science Writer Posted: Updated: AP Photo/Bob Child, 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/Mel Evans, File In this July 19, 2007, file photo, a Lymantria dispar moth caterpillar crawls along partially eaten leaves of a t...

Lewis' address will honor Margaret Collins, legendary Black entomologist and civil rights advocate Vernard Lewis, Ph.D., BCE Annapolis, MD; May 24, 2021—Vernard Lewis, Ph.D., BCE, emeritus cooperative extension specialist at the University of California, Berkeley, has been selected to deliver the Founders' Memorial Award lecture at Entomology 2021, the Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of America (ESA). The Founders' Memorial Award was established in 1958 to honor the memory of scientists who made outstanding contributions to entomology. Each year at the ESA Annual Meeting, the re...