11 May 2005

An Denegrating Homage


...to the insects, not the humans. Cornell University just reported that two of its former entomologists recently had the job of naming 65 new species of slime-mold beetles. Three are new to science & so were named...for members of the U.S. administration. These lucky bugs are in the genus Agathidium - they are A. bushi Miller and Wheeler, A. cheneyi Miller and Wheeler and A. rumsfeldi Miller and Wheeler.

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