No more "Gypsy Moths"

[808 Estate]

Bug experts get rid of the name 'gypsy moth' because some Roma people consider it to be an ethnic slur.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9773475/B...

The group this week announced that for the first time it changed a common name of an insect because it was offensive. In the past they've only reassigned names that weren't scientifically accurate.

She also argued that 'no one wanted to be associated with an invasive pest'
I do feel sorry for the poor moth.

[irc]

I couldn't give a tinker,s cuss.

[GliderRider]

Well, Sir Francis Chichester is dead, and De Havilland stopped making them about ninety years ago, so no surprises there then.



Picture from gipsymoth.org

[Eric Mc]

They were only called Gypsy Moths because they were powered by a de Havilland Gypsy engines. The DH60 Moth was the correct designation.

And what about the Keil Kraft Gypsy flying model? I built one nearly 50 years ago and wouldn’t mind building another one.

[TriumphStag3.0V8]

Are we going to have to change the Fleetwood Mac song as well?

[DAVEVO9]

They’ll be banning wolf whistling next

[garagewidow]

Traveller Moth doesn't quite have the same romanticism about it.

[hidetheelephants]

TriumphStag3.0V8 said:

Are we going to have to change the Fleetwood Mac song as well?

And Cher?

[speedy_thrills]

I also thought this was going to be about 1920s aircraft. Absolute clickbait and I'm very disappointed.