Whilst we are talking about insects: spotted by
webmaster Paul, US Entomologists Quentin Wheeler and Kelly
B. Miller recently had the task of naming 65 newly
discovered species of slime-mold beetles and named three
species after the US president George W Bush, vice
president Dick Cheney and defence secretary Donald H
Rumsfeld. The newly found beetles are respectively called:
Agathidium bushi Miller and Wheeler, Agathidium cheneyi
Miller and Wheeler, and Agathidium rumsfeldi Miller and
Wheeler. Naming the beetles after Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld
was intended to pay homage to them, said Wheeler, who
taught at Cornell University for 24 years and now is with
the Natural History Museum in London.