Michigan's own celebrity Jeff Daniels now has a spider-killing worm named after him - Detroit Free Press
Discovered by a team from UC Riverside, the worm was given the name because of Daniels' role in the 1990 hit movie "Arachnophobia." In it, he's the hero battling a lethal spider attack that's endangering his small town.Daniels' response to the university's decision was, characteristically, wry and good-natured.“When I first heard a new species of nematode had been named after me, I thought, ‘Why?