“If people are feeling excluded because of what we call something, that’s not acceptable,” the president of the Entomological Society of America said The Entomological Society of America are working ...

The names people use for insects, he learned, can affect both insects and people. So his ears perked when a May 2020 article in The New York Times about Vespa mandarinia — the world’s largest wasp ...

The Entomological Society of America says the common names for the two insects include a pejorative for Roma people. It's part of a wider effort... The largest organization of insect experts in the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Bug experts are dropping the common name of ...

The Entomological Society of America will exact new effort toward rectifying a longtime wrong in the world of bug study. Two well-regarded species of insect—one moth and one ant—will undertake a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Close-up of a Gypsy moth (Lymantria dispar) larva, on the underside of a leaf in a bushy habitat in Croatia, Europe. The lara is ...