Canadian singer songwriter Neil Young performs during a concert at the International Congress Center in Berlin, Germany on Feb. 26, 2008.
Posted on 05/12/2008 8:42:45 PM PDT by Liberty Valance
RALEIGH, N.C. -- You can call Neil Young the new spiderman.
A biologist has named a newly discovered trapdoor spider after rock star Neil Young: Myrmekiaphila neilyoungi.
The musician is "worthy of that honor" because he's been an activist for social and political issues, said East Carolina University biologist Jason Bond.
Bond, 40, examined the spider in a collection at the American Museum of Natural History in New York where it was identified as a new species that's indigenous to Alabama. He sent students there to collect more specimens.
It's not the first time Bond has bestowed a beloved name on a new spider species. He named one species Stasimopus mendelai after South African civil rights leader Nelson Mandela. The spider Apomastus kristenae is named after his wife, Kristen.
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Hope Neil Young will remember ...
;o)
I hear the spider has a lovely singing voice as well.
LOL - no doubt
Guess the spider can’t sing for sh*t either.
HA! Great Video.
I loved Neil Young so much in his youth. I felt so bad when his girlfriend left him back in l971 and he made a song about all the stuff that was happening around him in 1973 and whatever....
There’s a lot of cockroaches in New York. They could have named a species of them after Young. The guy was and is still a radical leftist, although I must admit I like a few of his early songs.
Named after Neil? What a tragedy, the honor belongs to Hillary. How about Hillarodius Venamus?
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