Comment on Botanic nomenclature

• LeapSecond@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Looking for the backstory of the frog name, here’s another gem from here.

  Now, the caterpillar remains alive for a while as the baby wasps eat it from the inside, bending and squirming as it becomes desiccated and dies. These wiggly movements made the scientists think of Shakira, and thus the species Aleiodes shakirae immortalized the Colombian singer in the annals of zoology.

  Zoologists are fun.

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