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In her insect 'era': Scientists caught the 'Swiftie' bug and named a genus after Taylor Swift

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What happened Taylor Swift's latest honor is crawling straight out of the insect world. Why a California doctoral student has named a bug genus after the international superstar.
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WDSU New Orleans (Hearst)News report · Sep 9, 11:56 PM

In her insect 'era': Scientists caught the 'Swiftie' bug and named a genus after Taylor Swift

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Taylor Swift's latest honor is crawling straight out of the insect world. Why a California doctoral student has named a bug genus after the international superstar

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Phys.orgNews report · Sep 9, 10:40 PM

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

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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Sep 9, 10:40 PM: Phys.org joined the source map.

Sep 9, 11:56 PM: WDSU New Orleans (Hearst) joined the source map.

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