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 ...
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
Lots of things have been named after Obama,
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I noticed DJT's hair looks different; has it styled differently; looks much better.
... 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 ...Please ping me with any Southern California related articles. Thank you!
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