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R.E.M. star Michael Stipe has helped a top German entomologist and a research associate at Yale University name a new ant species.
Strumigenys ayersthey is named after Charles Ayers, the artist and political activist who was part of Andy Warhol s fabled circle of friends and stars. The name uses the suffix they , rather than a gendered Latin suffix, to celebrate gender diversity. Entomologist Phillip Hoenle discovered the ant in the rainforest in Ecuador and sent a specimen to Douglas B. Booher, a research associate in the Yale Center for Biodiversity and Global Change and the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, to confirm if it really was a new species.
Michael Stipe Helps Name Ant Species
R.E.M. star Michael Stipe has helped a top German entomologist and a research associate at Yale University name a new ant species.
Strumigenys ayersthey is named after Charles Ayers, the artist and political activist who was part of Andy Warhol’s fabled circle of friends and stars. The name uses the suffix ‘they’, rather than a gendered Latin suffix, to celebrate gender diversity.
Entomologist Phillip Hoenle discovered the ant in the rainforest in Ecuador and sent a specimen to Douglas B. Booher, a research associate in the Yale Center for Biodiversity and Global Change and the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, to confirm if it really was a new species.
Michael Stipe Lends Top Entomologist a Hand in the Naming of New Ant Species
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After discovering the ant in the rainforest in Ecuador, Phillip Hoenle reaches out to the R.E.M. frontman for assistance in asking one of Andy Warhol s legion of Superstars for the name use. May 7, 2021
Michael Stipe has helped a top German entomologist and a research associate at Yale University name a new ant species.
Strumigenys ayersthey is named after Charles Ayers, the artist and political activist who was part of Andy Warhol s fabled circle of friends and stars.
Entomologist Phillip Hoenle discovered the ant in the rainforest in Ecuador and sent a specimen to Douglas B. Booher, a research associate in the Yale Center for Biodiversity and Global Change and the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, to confirm if it really was a new species.
Rolling Stone Menu Michael Stipe Helps Name Ant Species After Andy Warhol Superstar
Strumigenys ayersthey is named after Jeremy Ayers, who performed in Warhol’s films as Silva Thin and fostered the local music and arts scene in Athens, Georgia
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A German entomologist and a research associate at Yale University, with some help from R.E.M.’s Michael Stipe, have named a new ant species
Strumigenys ayersthey, after Charles “Jeremy” Ayers, the artist and political activist who was part of Andy Warhol’s legion of “Superstars” as the gender-bending Silva Thin.