这就是俗话说, 权? Two weeks ago I participated in the 5th annual National Geographic BioBlitz over in Saguaro National Park in Tucson, 亚利桑那. 这是一个伟大的借口重新进入该领域，这是我第一次在秋天收集的亚利桑那州. 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. 只有 190 arthropods were counted in total – we lost to vascular plants (325 种类) and even fungi (205)!
这里是一个 short interview with me in a 真 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 不可能的.
