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Tiny Moth Named for President-Elect Donald Trump
NBC News ^ | January 17, 2017 | Mindy Weisberger, Live Science

Posted on 01/17/2017 7:56:07 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

A miniscule moth with a wingspan of just 0.4 inches is the first species to be named for the soon-to-be president of the United States, Donald Trump.

Yellow and white scales topping the moth's head resemble Trump's signature hairstyle, inspiring the name Neopalpa donaldtrumpi, wrote evolutionary biologist Vazrick Nazari, a researcher from Ottowa, Canada, in a new study.

The moth's habitat extends from Southern California in the U.S. through Baja California in Mexico. The wall that the president-elect has proposed building along the border between the two countries could divide that stretch.

Nazari discovered the new species while examining moth specimens from the Bohart Museum of Entomology in California during an investigation of the North American moth family Gelechiidae, also known as twirler moths....

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...


TOPICS: Pets/Animals; Science; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: california; insects; moth; moths; neopalpadonaldtrumpi; science; trump
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To: rfp1234

They also misspelled minuscule in the first sentence.

They are journalists- what did you expect- that they know how to spell or use spell check


21 posted on 01/18/2017 2:07:31 AM PST by Nailbiter
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To: piasa

Lots of things have been named after Obama,

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/12/these-nine-different-creatures-have-been-named-after-barack-obama

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22 posted on 01/18/2017 9:32:40 AM PST by Mears
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23 posted on 01/18/2017 4:08:27 PM PST by Daffynition ( "The New PTSD: Post-Trump Stress Disorder" - The MLN didn't make Trump, so they can't break Trump.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I noticed DJT's hair looks different; has it styled differently; looks much better.

24 posted on 01/18/2017 4:11:18 PM PST by Daffynition ( "The New PTSD: Post-Trump Stress Disorder" - The MLN didn't make Trump, so they can't break Trump.)
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25 posted on 01/19/2017 1:17:30 PM PST by EveningStar
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SoCal Ping!



Attention Southern Californians
... The moth's habitat extends from Southern California in the U.S. through Baja California in Mexico. The wall that the president-elect has proposed building along the border between the two countries could divide that stretch ...
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26 posted on 01/19/2017 2:57:33 PM PST by EveningStar
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