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WHY WE HATE LATIN BUG NAMES

s a self-professed bug nerd, it physically pained me to see BAETIS spelled wrong in your Summer issue. While not a life-impacting concern, it was hard to see an article that claimed such reverence for a specific hatch, only to see BAETIS spelled incorrectly on both the contents page and the heading of the

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