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.
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