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Invasive ‘murder hornet’ is getting a rebrand. Here’s why.
The Hill via Yahoo News· 2 years agoStory at a glance Entomological Society of America (ESA) President Jessica Ware said the new name,...
The infamous and invasive ‘murder hornet’ gets a new name
The Independent via Yahoo News· 2 years agoTo entomologists, the animal has always been known as Vespa mandarinia. But these giant wasps, with...
Fiber optic cables can pick up cicadas' droning din
Popular Science via Yahoo News· 5 months agoCicadas live underground for 13 or 17 years, before emerging to mate. Every 13 or 17 years, the buzzy mating call of billions of cicadas is the...
'Murder Hornet' Rebranding Makes A Clean Break From Crime
HuffPost via Yahoo News· 2 years agoA former murder hornet, now known as the northern giant hornet, wears a tracking device near Blaine,...
'Murder hornets' get name change to avoid reinforcing anti-Asian sentiments
NextShark via Yahoo News· 2 years agoEntomologists in the United States and Canada have changed the common name of the “Asian giant...
Fact Check: Video of a Red-and-Blue Spider Resembling Marvel Superhero Spider-Man Went Viral. Let's...
Snopes via Yahoo News· 2 months agoScreengrab/Reddit Claim: A video shared to Reddit in February 2024 genuinely showed a real,...
Asian giant hornet gets new name
KIRO via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe Washington State Department of Agriculture will now begin referring to what was most often called the “Asian giant hornet” as the “northern giant...
Fact Check: Oh My God, What Is That Bug?
Snopes via Yahoo News· 5 months agoScreengrab/TikTok Claim: A video genuinely shows a large, black bug with more than a dozen legs. Rating: With more than a dozen creepy, crawly legs, a...
Scrub Hub: The spongy moth is 'devastating' forests across U.S. and it's coming to Indiana
IndyStar | The Indianapolis Star via Yahoo News· 2 years agoI don’t know about you, but something with spongy in the name doesn’t really imply danger. Maybe...
Dozens of birds, including ones named after white supremacists, are being renamed
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 6 months agoDozens of bird species in the United States and Canada will get "imaginative" new names that reflect...
