Αυτό είναι το πώς το λέει και η παροιμία, δικαίωμα? Two weeks ago I participated in the 5th annual National Geographic BioBlitz over in Saguaro National Park in Tucson, Αριζόνα. Ήταν μια μεγάλη δικαιολογία για να πάρει πίσω στο χώρο και ήταν η πρώτη φορά που συλλέγονται Αριζόνα το φθινόπωρο. Temps were still pushing the mid 90’s but things had been dry and the impressive abundance of the monsoon season was long gone. In total my moth colleagues and I collected around 140 species of Lepidoptera, 56 of which were microleps! Sadly though it seems that either other insects were far and few inbetween, or other entomology teams didn’t carefully tally everything they saw. Μόνο 190 arthropods were counted in total – we lost to vascular plants (325 είδος) and even fungi (205)!
Εδώ είναι ένα short interview with me in a πραγματικά hot tent with lots of kids (who must have given me this cold I now have). Perhaps my wild estimate of a possible 15,000 species in the US is on the high side, but it’s not impossible.
