14 Great Names for Bugs

Scientists have a sense of humor just like the rest of us. The difference is that a scientist’s jokes are sometimes enshrined in the body of knowledge for eternity, or close to it. One of the ways they do this is naming things that previously had no name, like insect species. A little leeway in Latin goes a long way when classifying insects, because there are way more insect species than there are existing words in lost languages. That’s when things can get interesting. Meet some bugs with names that make you go “huh?” in this list I posted at mental_floss.