(Photos: Jemal Countess/Getty Images; (AP Photo/Bryan Lessard, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization)

At times the worlds of science and race have collided in ways that are glaringly racist and wrong. Take, for instance, the Tuskegee Experiments, when Black men with syphillis were left untreated so that the medical establishment could note the disease’s progression. Or also take the forced sterilizations on Black, Native American and Puerto Rican women, a policy cheered on by the federal government as a way to limit births by poorer women or color.

These times left no one with a conscious unsure that something foul was afoot.

Fortunately, this is not what is happening here.  No one’s life or fertility is at stake in the case of the golden-assed fly. The biggest victim seems to be basic good sense. Seems there’s a researcher, Bryan Lessard. Lessard is a 24-year-old who works at Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization. Lessard knows what he likes—he likes Beyoncé. So much that he wanted to put her name “in the nature history books forever” by naming a newly discovered horsefly Scaptia (Plinthina) beyonceae. Lessard claims this insect is beautiful, like the pop diva, but that’s not the only thing they seem to have in common. Lessard says they are both “pretty bootylicious.” Not just that, but the ass of the insect is golden, like a fetishized light up toy, a horsefly version of one of those Glo Worms that small children use as nightlights.

To recap: there is a horsefly with a big, golden butt (it’s known by the locals as the “gold bum fly”) that was captured in 1981, the year that Beyonce was born, and it is now named after the reigning queen of pop/mama of Baby Blue Ivy.

A few problems with this is that once again, a Black woman is being known in the history books forever because of her ass. And once again, her ass is in some way so spectacular that science is thinking about it. What’s not so spectacular is that Lessard hasn’t heard back from Beyoncé with her feelings about her namesake.