“If people are feeling excluded because of what we call something, that’s not acceptable,” the president of the Entomological Society of America said The Entomological Society of America are working ...

Two insect species are getting a name change. “Gypsy moth” and “gypsy ant” have been removed as recognized common names from the Entomological Society of America’s Common Names of Insects and Related ...

The Entomological Society of America is changing the offensive names of two bug species, and is launching a project to preempt this issue overall. The Entomological Society of America will exact new ...

The names people use for insects, he learned, can affect both insects and people. So his ears perked when a May 2020 article in The New York Times about Vespa mandarinia — the world’s largest wasp ...

Researchers analyzed more than 1 million specimens to map California insect diversity. Their findings suggest roughly ...