Newly-Discovered Slime Beetles named after Bush, Cheney Rumsfeld

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Entomologists Quentin Wheeler and Kelly B. Miller, who recently had the task of naming 65 newly discovered species of slime-mold beetles, named three species after the president, vice president and defense secretary.


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What?
Posted by Nyeca on 2005-04-27 12:41:47
Those must be some really stupid beetles to name them after bush.

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