{"id":805098,"date":"2020-03-10T19:00:49","date_gmt":"2020-03-11T01:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=965424"},"modified":"2020-03-10T19:00:49","modified_gmt":"2020-03-11T01:00:49","slug":"lady-gaga-newly-discovered-insect-species-named-after-singer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/lady-gaga-newly-discovered-insect-species-named-after-singer\/","title":{"rendered":"Lady Gaga: Newly Discovered Insect Species Named After Singer"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Lady Gaga<\/a>\u2019s flamboyant visual style has inspired the name of a newly discovered insect species. Kaikaia gaga<\/i> is a new genus of the treehopper bugs first discovered almost 30 years ago near the Pacific coast of Nicaragua, the Fader<\/em><\/a> reports (via Illinois News Bureau<\/a><\/em>). <\/span><\/p>\n

Brendan Morris, a PhD candidate in entomology at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, borrowed roughly 1,000 treehoppers from Pittsburgh\u2019s Carnegie Museum of Natural History for research purposes \u2014 but after studying a female bug under a stereoscope, he discovered some unique features that distinguished her from the others.<\/span><\/p>\n

In a report via the journal Zootaxa<\/em><\/a>, Morris and his co-author, Illinois Natural History Survey entomologist Christopher Dietrich, described the creature\u2019s \u201cadditional m-cu crossvein in the forewing, as well as a frontoclypeal shape and overall appearance similar to Platycentrus <\/i>St\u00e5l,\u201d along with a \u201cnarrow, straight shape of the second valvulae.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIf there is going to be a Lady Gaga bug, it\u2019s going to be a treehopper because they\u2019ve got these crazy horns,\u201d he told Illinois News Bureau<\/em>. \u201cThey have this wacky fashion sense about them. They\u2019re unlike anything you\u2019ve ever seen before.\u201d One might even say they\u2019re horned<\/em> this way. <\/span><\/p>\n

Morris wasn\u2019t able to extract DNA from the insect, but he plans to visit Nicaragua in hopes of finding other living K. gaga<\/em> in the tropical forest where the original was collected. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cTreehoppers are wacky, and I think that makes them especially suited to be \u2018spokesbugs\u2019 for the wide range of habitats they use,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

The human Gaga recently announced a six-date summer tour<\/a> that launches July 24th in Paris and includes U.S. dates in Boston, Chicago and East Rutherford, New Jersey. Every North American ticket includes a CD copy of the singer\u2019s upcoming album Chromatica<\/em><\/a>, out April 10th. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Lady Gaga\u2019s flamboyant visual style has inspired the name of a newly discovered insect species. Kaikaia gaga is a new genus of the treehopper bugs first discovered almost 30 years ago near the Pacific coast of Nicaragua, the Fader reports (via Illinois News Bureau).  Brendan Morris, a PhD candidate in entomology at University of Illinois […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-805098","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-19 13:24:44","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=805098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}