c/nottheonion · by HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2d

New insect genus and four species named for Taylor Swift and her albums

https://phys.org/news/2026-09-insect-genus-species-taylor-swift.html

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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ch00f@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2d (3 replies)

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.

10 minutes pass

Wow, they live their entire lives on the same tree. What is a "she oak" anyway?

piwakawakas@lemmy.nz · 1 pts · 1d (2 replies)

It's a tree native to Australian. In reality it looks nothing like an Oak, but rather has needle like leaves (think pine, but not quite the same).

ch00f@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1d (1 reply)

So the entwives ended up in Australia. Got it.

piwakawakas@lemmy.nz · 1 pts · 1d

I guess you could say that. They're fairly burly trees

Texas_Hangover@lemmy.radio · 5 pts · 1d

Do they make shrill and unpleasant sounds?

tidderuuf@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d

a genus of plant-feeding insects

I thought those were called Swifties.