Insect with ‘wacky fashion sense’ named after Lady Gaga
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nypost.comAn insect with a “wacky fashion sense” is on the edge of glory: It’s been named after flashy pop star Lady Gaga. Brendan Morris, a graduate student studying entomology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, zeroed in on features of a new genus of treehopper bug — the newly-christened Kaikaia gaga — that are distinctive from other treehoppers hailing from a Nicaraguan tropical rain forest where they were first collected 30 years ago. “If there is going to be a Lady Gaga bug, it’s going to be a treehopper, because they’ve got these crazy horns, they have this wacky fashion sense about them,” Morris told the university’s Illinois News Bureau. “They’re unlike anything you’ve ever seen before.” Morris’ fascination with the bug isn’t
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