Fly with Golden Posterior Named After Beyoncé

Naming means Beyoncé will 'stay fly' for eternity.

2012 is shaping up to be quite the year for Beyoncé Knowles, what with the birth of her first daughter, Blue Ivy Carter, and now, an Australian researcher naming a horse fly after the singer. Bryan Lessard, a 24-year-old from Canberra, Australia, was browsing through a collection at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization when he stumbled upon an unnamed fly with a golden backside. The fly was discovered in 1981, the same year that Beyoncé was born, but had gone unnamed for the intervening three decades. Given its notable rear end and its coincidental date of discovery, Lessard decided he ought to immortalize Beyoncé in the insect world. And just like that, Scaptia (Plinthina) beyonceae was born. Oh, and we're sure Jay-Z is just enamoured with the thought that his wife and the mother of his child now shares her name with a horse fly, and not, oh, a bird or basically anything other than a flying, stinging insect.