Each edition of News of the Week will now feature a piece of trivia about Loma Linda University Health.
Readers will be asked to fill in a missing piece of information. The first three people each week to provide the correct answer will receive a moderately awesome prize.
We begin with bugs:
In 1960, two LLU entomologists were entered into scientific taxonomy as the inspiration for newly named types of biting flies. After Chris Christianson came the name Forcipomyia christiansoni. Dasyhelea ryckmani and Culicoides ryckmani were named in honor of Raymond Ryckman. These flies are all part of the scientific family called ________.
If you can fill in the correct scientific family name, e-mail the answer to pr@llu.edu for a chance to win.
The answer, along with the winners’ names, will be published in next Thursday’s issue.