Baseball: Researcher names wasp variety after Ichiro

Although Ichiro Suzuki is on a path toward America's National Baseball Hall of Fame, he has now received an even more unusual honor -- an insect species named after him.Canadian entomologist Jose Fernandez-Triana, on Thursday, attached the Japanese star's name to a previously unknown variety of wasp in south Florida. In his research article on the website "ZooKeys," Fernandez-Triana named one of his 10 new findings, "Diolcogaster ichiroi."In explaining the origin of the brown and yellow wasp's name, Fernandez-Triana wrote the following."This unique and remarkable species is named to honor t…READ FULL ARTICLE