Neil Young has spider named after him!
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http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/story/0,26278,23682880-7484,00.html
US singer and songwriter Neil Young has had an honour bestowed upon him that is not received by many musicians – his own spider.
East Carolina University biologist Jason Bond discovered a new species of trapdoor spider and opted to call the arachnid after his favourite musician, Canadian Neil Young, naming it Myrmekiaphila neilyoungi.
"There are rather strict rules about how you name new species," Mr Bond said.
"As long as these rules are followed you can give a new species just about any name you please. With regards to Neil Young, I really enjoy his music and have had a great appreciation of him as an activist for peace and justice."
Young, 62, is a veteran rock musician who rose to fame in the 1960s with the band Buffalo Springfield and later became a member of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, whose 1970 release Deja Vu has become a classic rock album.
The singer/songwriter, whose solo work ranges from older albums such as Harvest to newer CDs like Living with War, has long been an activist for social and anti-war causes.
Mr Bond discovered the new spider species in Jefferson County, Alabama, in 2007.
He said spiders in the trapdoor genus, who tended to live in burrows and build trap doors to seal off their living quarters, were distinguished from one species to the next on the basis of differences in genitalia.
He confirmed through the spider's DNA that the Myrmekiaphila neilyoungi was an identifiable, separate species of spider within the trapdoor genus.
Young is not the first musician to have a creature named after him.
A species of beetle that looks as if it is wearing a tuxedo - the whirligig beetle, or Orectochilus orbisonorum - was named earlier this year after the late rock 'n' roll legend Roy Orbison and his widow Barbara.
Kinda strange...
US singer and songwriter Neil Young has had an honour bestowed upon him that is not received by many musicians – his own spider.
East Carolina University biologist Jason Bond discovered a new species of trapdoor spider and opted to call the arachnid after his favourite musician, Canadian Neil Young, naming it Myrmekiaphila neilyoungi.
"There are rather strict rules about how you name new species," Mr Bond said.
"As long as these rules are followed you can give a new species just about any name you please. With regards to Neil Young, I really enjoy his music and have had a great appreciation of him as an activist for peace and justice."
Young, 62, is a veteran rock musician who rose to fame in the 1960s with the band Buffalo Springfield and later became a member of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, whose 1970 release Deja Vu has become a classic rock album.
The singer/songwriter, whose solo work ranges from older albums such as Harvest to newer CDs like Living with War, has long been an activist for social and anti-war causes.
Mr Bond discovered the new spider species in Jefferson County, Alabama, in 2007.
He said spiders in the trapdoor genus, who tended to live in burrows and build trap doors to seal off their living quarters, were distinguished from one species to the next on the basis of differences in genitalia.
He confirmed through the spider's DNA that the Myrmekiaphila neilyoungi was an identifiable, separate species of spider within the trapdoor genus.
Young is not the first musician to have a creature named after him.
A species of beetle that looks as if it is wearing a tuxedo - the whirligig beetle, or Orectochilus orbisonorum - was named earlier this year after the late rock 'n' roll legend Roy Orbison and his widow Barbara.
Kinda strange...
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so he's Canadian, but still a US singer/songwriter?
♬♪♫ and I will not, grow tired of crayon stars and fire
♬♪♫ cause a soldier's death is so much better than defeat just hanging around
but he is also a Canadian.
and that, my friends was the mind fuck of the day...oh that and the fact that a spider is now named after Neil Young...
haha.... Yeah now I want one as a pet!!