Lou Reed Gets A Spider Named After Him

Lou Reed has joined the late Frank Zappa and Neil Young as rock stars who have had newly discovered spiders named after them.

Sci-News.com reports that a new genus of velvet spider has been recently named ‘Loureedia’, “in recognition of the fact that this velvet spider lives underground”.

This was obviously in reference to Reed’s time as a founding member of 60’s…

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