California Has Way More Insect Species Than Anyone Thought. Here’s the New Estimate.
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California is a big state. You'd expect it to have many different insect species. Since there's no real way to take a door-to-door census, scientists rely on informed estimates. For a long time, the scientific community assumed California had around 26,000 insect species. That was extremely wrong. New revised estimates published in the journal Ecography put the […] The post California Has Way More Insect Species Than Anyone Thought. Here's the New Estimate. appeared first on VICE .
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