ວ່າແນວໃດຄໍາເວົ້າທີ່ວ່າ, ສິດ? Two weeks ago I participated in the 5th annual National Geographic BioBlitz over in Saguaro National Park in Tucson, Arizona. ມັນເປັນການແກ້ຕົວທີ່ຍິ່ງໃຫຍ່ເພື່ອໃຫ້ໄດ້ຮັບກັບຄືນໄປບ່ອນເຂົ້າໄປໃນພາກສະຫນາມແລະການມັນແມ່ນການທີ່ໃຊ້ເວລາທໍາອິດທີ່ຂ້າພະເຈົ້າເກັບກໍາຂໍ້ມູນ Arizona ໃນການຫຼຸດລົງ. 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. ພຽງແຕ່ 190 arthropods were counted in total – we lost to vascular plants (325 ຊະນິດ) and even fungi (205)!
ນີ້ແມ່ນ ກ short interview with me in a ກໍ່ 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 ເປັນໄປບໍ່ໄດ້.
