Worries over rising anti-Asian bias added urgency to picking a new name for Asian giant hornets.
. Looney urged that a hornet common name avoid linking “Asian”with “a large insect that inspires fear and is under eradication.”Vespa soror
Comparing the native ranges of two huge hornet species shows why the Entomological Society of America picked “northern giant hornet” as the common name for, which had invaded British Columbia and Washington state by 2019. Yellow dots mark reports of that species across a more northerly range of Asia than the span of red-orange stars for the also newly named “southern giant hornet” (Map: Gard W. Otis/University of Guelph; Location data: Global Biodiversity Information Facility, gbif.
This decision is official in the sense of selection by a relevant institution, but ESA can only enforce name use in its own publications. Other groups may decide to follow ESA rules, but there’s no central authority in the free-for-all fizz of common names. A field guide writer can choose among folk traditions and languages or even just make up names.
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