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Treehopper Named After GAGA


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According to Brendan Morris, a graduate student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, treehoppers are the wackiest, most astonishing bugs most people have never heard of. They are morphological wonders, sporting bizarre protuberances that look like horns, gnarled branches, antlers, fruiting fungi, brightly colored flags or dead plant leaves. Treehoppers suck on plant juices. They sing to each other by vibrating plant stems. And they are an important food source for other forest creatures.

"If there is going to be a Lady Gaga bug, it's going to be a treehopper, because they've got these crazy horns, they have this wacky fashion sense about them," Morris said. "They're unlike anything you've ever seen before."

The insect, now known as Kaikaia gaga, also represents a new genus of treehopper, Morris and his coauthor, INHS entomologist Christopher Dietrich, reported in the journal Zootaxa. 

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https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-03/uoia-gsn031020.php

 

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Just now, Rifek said:

Wasn't that announced like 3 months ago? :awkney:

oh, i did not know, this is, i think, quite recent

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Just now, Twitter said:

What is a treehopper? default_orangu1.png

 

5 minutes ago, YaaaasGaga said:

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there you go

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little legend

I swear almost every year i hear another new discovered insect to be named something Gaga related :wtfga:

Her power tho:legend:

But why the name causw if her only insects ? :toofunny:

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8 hours ago, Rifek said:

Wasn't that announced like 3 months ago? :awkney:

I thought this sounded familiar lol

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