Taylor Swift’s Latest Honor Is Unlike Anything She’s Won Before

Taylor Swift’s Latest Honor Is Unlike Anything She’s Won Before

Taylor Swift has won just about every kind of major honor, but this one is taking her fame somewhere no music award ever has: the insect world. The award-winning singer and songwriter is now the namesake of a newly identified group of Australian plant-feeding insects. A new genus and four species have been named after […]

Taylor Swift has a newly discovered bug genus named after her

Scientists have named a newly discovered genus of insects "Swiftiephylus" in honor of Taylor Swift.

Taylor Swift inspired the name of a new type of insect — and each subspecies is its own 'Easter egg'

The bugs have a “blonde” exterior and red accents, similar to Swift’s signature red lip.

Newly Discovered Plant-Eating Insects Named After Taylor Swift

Taylor Swift is the namesake of several recently discovered species of plant-feeding insects from Australia, as dubbed by UC Riverside researchers.

There Are Now Four Kinds of Bugs Named After Taylor Swift

Taylor Swift has become so popular that she is no longer confined to the human species. A rising star entomologist at the University of California, Riverside, Sarah Schroeder, has named not one but four species of insects after Swift, critters so distinct that they have been put in their own genus, Swiftiephylus. The insects are named “in recognition of her show-stopping talent, heart-wrenching lyrics, and the joy and comfort she has brought to…