Bill Gates' flower fly
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Bill Gates' flower fly (Eristalis gatesi) is a flower fly found only in Costa Rican high montane cloud forests and named after Bill Gates.[1] Another fly found in similar habitats was named after Gates' associate Paul Allen, called Paul Allen's flower fly (Eristalis alleni); according to the US Department of Agriculture's Systematic Entomology Laboratory, both names were in "recognition of [their] great contributions to the science of Dipterology".[2]
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- ^ Bill Gates' Flower Fly. Retrieved on 2008-05-24.
- ^ Paul Allen's Flower Fly. Retrieved on 2008-05-24.
