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The study that caused the biggest stir came from a group led by Dutch researcher Caspar A. Hallmann in 2017, in which data from the Krefeld Entomological Association was analysed.

From Science Daily • Sep. 27, 2023

The gypsy moth was renamed the spongy moth by the Entomological Society of America last year, and the former Hottentot Teal, a duck, was renamed the Blue-Billed Teal by the American Ornithological Society.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 12, 2023

In 2022, for instance, the Entomological Society of America adopted spongy moth for the invasive moth Lymantria dispar, getting rid of gypsy moth.

From Science Magazine • Sep. 5, 2023

“One person reported that their toddler ate one,” says Johnson, who recently published her findings in the Bulletin of Entomological Research.

From National Geographic • Aug. 31, 2023

Fellow of the Ethnological or of the Entomological Society. feud.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various