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
An invasive species has an ethnic slur in its common name Entomologists are changing that
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