A Fly Diva!

Australian National Insect Collection researcher, Bryan Lessard, recently named a horse fly after Beyonce' and described it as the "all time diva of flies."  This previously unnamed species was first collected in Australia in 1981, the year Beyonce' was born, and it has been sitting in a fly collection since.

The official name is Scaptia (Plinthina) beyonceae, but I have a feeling we'll just know it as the Beyonce' horse fly.  This horse fly's glamorous golden bottom led 24-year old Lessard to describe it as "pretty bootylicious" ("Bootylicious" also being the title of a Destiny's Child song, which is Beyonce's previous group).  He hopes that this will let people see the fun side taxonomy, the naming of species.