{"id":17483,"date":"2023-01-21T17:33:54","date_gmt":"2023-01-22T01:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=17483"},"modified":"2023-01-22T00:02:31","modified_gmt":"2023-01-22T08:02:31","slug":"lymantria-dispar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=17483","title":{"rendered":"Lymantria dispar"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt;\"><b>2023 January 20<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt;\"><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt;\"><b>\u00a0\u00a0 <i>Lymantria dispar<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt;\"><b><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;\">\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0\u00a0 On January 14, while writing about the proposed insecticide spraying program for <i>L.dispar<\/i>,\u00a0 I expressed an opinion something to the effect that the change in its English name to Spongy Moth was \u201cpolitically correct\u201d, and that I didn\u2019t know who, if anyone, was offended by the old name.\u00a0 I quickly received two letters(and will doubtless receive a few more) pointing out that the G-word is exceedingly offensive to the Romani people, and for good reason\u00a0 (in a similar manner to why the N-word is offensive to Black people).\u00a0 I need hardly say, I hope, that no offence was intended, and I apologize for the comments (which I have now erased) that I made.\u00a0 I am much indebted to Leah Ramsay for the following link, which gives some background.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/smart-news\/invasive-moth-gets-a-new-name-spongy-moth-180979680\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: blue;\">https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/smart-news\/invasive-moth-gets-a-new-name-spongy-moth-180979680\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2023 January 20 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Lymantria dispar \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0\u00a0 On January 14, while writing about the proposed insecticide spraying program for L.dispar,\u00a0 I expressed an opinion something to the effect that the change in its English name to Spongy Moth was \u201cpolitically correct\u201d, and that I didn\u2019t know who, if anyone, was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-invertebrate-alert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17483"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17486,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17483\/revisions\/17486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}