Scientists are naming a rare species of beetle after former California Gov. Jerry Brown after finding one at his ranch.
This photo courtesy of Bembidion expert David Maddison, a professor of integrative biology at Oregon State University, shows a specimen of Bembidion brownorum discovered by UC Berkeley entomologist Kipling Will while sampling for insects near Freshwater Creek on former Gov. Jerry Brown's Colusa County ranch in Colusa County, Calif. Scientists are naming a rare species of beetle in honour of former California Gov. Jerry Brown after finding one at his ranch.
The beetle is brown and tiny at about 5 millimetres long, although that is still larger than other Bembidion beetles. Under magnification "it glows with a green and gold metallic shimmer," according to UC Berkeley. UC Berkeley entomologist Kipling Will has been sampling insects at the 2,500-acre ranch for more than two years. On July 1, 2021, he found an unfamiliar beetle and called up an expert, David Maddison at Oregon State University, to help identify it, UC Berkeley said.
The species probably was rarely spotted because it probably has been rapidly declining as its habitat is destroyed by urbanization and agricultural development, Will said."I'm very glad that is advancing science in some interesting and important ways," Brown said in the UC Berkeley statement.
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