News in brief: Counting project reveals forest’s bug diversity

Some 25,000 species of arthropods live in Panamanian forest

An international effort has put together the first tally of all the species of butterflies, beetles, ants, bees, roaches and their fellow arthropods that live in a tropical forest. And the count: 25,000.

BUG CENSUS The scarab beetle Megasoma elephas was one of the residents tallied in a heroic effort to determine how many arthropod species live in Panama’s San Lorenzo forest.