Being named after a flying insect doesn’t exactly sound like a compliment. Wouldn’t you rather see your name on a species of jungle cat or bird of prey? But ask green activist, author, and 国产吃瓜黑料 肠辞苍迟谤颈产耻迟辞谤听Bill McKibben, and he says he’ll take it!
The buzz in the insect world is that Peter Kerr, a scientist with the California Department of Food and Agriculture’s State Collection of Arthropods, in California and named it after McKibben to honor the author’s lifelong commitment to protecting the environment, 听谤别辫辞谤迟蝉.听
“I felt truly honored. I love this planet we got born onto, from the big down to the very small,” McKibben told . “To be officially connected with its great diversity鈥攚ell, that means a lot.”
Gnat’s all, folks!