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Gypsy first, entomologists dropping offensive bug names
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The New York Times
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Today at 3:46 a.m.
On Wednesday, the Entomological Society of America announced that it was removing gypsy moth and gypsy ant as recognized common names for two insects. For Ethel Brooks, a Romani scholar, the move is long overdue.
As a child in New Hampshire, Brooks loved watching worms and caterpillars crawl across her hand. But one particular caterpillar, the hairy larvae of the species Lymantria dispar, terrified her. The larvae would swarm and strip the leaves from a tree, leaving behind so much destruction that people sometimes called them a plague. But no one blamed L. dispar. Instead they blamed gypsy moth caterpillars, the species common name.