HUFFPOST - Hopefully, Taylor Swift won’t be bugged by this news, but a doctoral student in entomology at UC Riverside has just named a new genus of plant-feeding insects from Australia after the singer. Sarah Schroeder just co-authored a paper in the journal Insect Systematics and Evolution where she describes 12 new species of insects...
VARIETY - Taylor Swift, the award-winning billionaire singer and songwriter, is getting a new honor: The megastar is the namesake of several recently discovered species of plant-feeding insects from Australia. Researchers at the University of California, Riverside have named the new species of insect after Swift. A paper describing the 12 new species was published...
USA TODAY - Meet the newest members of the Swiftie universe. They're blonde, accented in red and have names like "Lover," "Fearless" and "Poets." They've also been hiding out in Australia for decades. Scientists have named a newly discovered genus of plant-feeding insects "Swiftiephylus" in honor of Taylor Swift. Sarah Schroeder , a doctoral student...