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By Neelam Bohra and Radhika Marya, CNN
Updated 7:31 PM ET, Mon July 12, 2021
A female Lymantria dispar moth lays her eggs on the trunk of a tree in the Salmon River State Forest in Connecticut. (CNN)Ethel Brooks, raised in a Romani community in New Hampshire, grew up with other kids telling her to stay away from gypsy moths.
Brooks didn t understand the connection between her Romani community for which the word gypsy has been used as a pejorative and a destructive, invasive insect species that poses a danger to North American forests.
They plan to consult a volunteer group to rename the moth and ant, which will go by their respective Latin names, Lymantria dispar
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