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“intrepidus is named for Swift’s 2008 Fearless ; and S.”
“The new species belong to a particular family of true bugs called plant bugs.”
“Swiftiephylus amator and Swiftiephylus taylorae, two of the bugs named after Taylor Swift because of their blonde and red coloring.”
“amator, Latin for “lover,” is “named for the dreamy, hopeful, romantic 2019 album Lover ;” S.”
“Weirauch had roughly sorted them into groups that looked alike, but it took Schroeder years of painstaking analysis to figure out their identities.”
“The brightly colored insects, native to Australia, are small — just fractions of an inch long — with colors that pop under a microscope.”
“Courtesy of Brad Balukjian, Ph.D.”
““We know so little about any of these bugs that we don’t actually understand what we’re losing,” Weirauch says.”
“Her office is covered in Swift photos, and next year she will walk down the aisle to the song “Enchanted.” Being able to connect her love for music to her love for science and the natural world is especially rewarding.”
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““It’s like ‘Oh my God, you found a new species!!’” she says.”
“Taylor Hill/FilmMagic Taylor Swift has become so popular that she is no longer confined to the human species.”
“To eat, they insert their piercing/sucking mouthparts into the stems and shoots of plants, slurping up the plants’ juices, while using chemical pheromones to seek mates and reproduce.”
“Her mentor and co-author Christiane Weirauch and other scientists had collected 593 specimens during expeditions to Australia more than 20 years ago, which had subsequently sat on a shelf waiting to be examined.”
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“Swiftiephylus bugs seem to be particularly good at not getting eaten thanks to their reddish-pink markings and blonde body, which camouflages perfectly with the flowers of the plants on which they’re found, called sheoaks (which are actually not oaks at all; unfortunately, the early European settlers in Australia often added “she” in front of words to convey inferiority, as in the quality of the plant’s wood).”
“They are part of a large group of insects called “true bugs”; despite the misconception that all insects are “bugs,” a bug is technically an insect with a straw-like mouth and partly translucent wings.”
“A rising star entomologist at the University of California, Riverside, Sarah Schroeder, has named not one but four species of insects after Swift, critters so distinct that they have been put in their own genus, Swiftiephylus .”
“The insects are named “in recognition of her show-stopping talent, heart-wrenching lyrics, and the joy and comfort she has brought to so many,” Schroeder writes in her new study, published today in the scientific journal Insect Systematics & Evolution .”