We've Been Undercounting the Insects. There May Be Three Times as Many Species as We Knew
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A macro wildlife photograph capturing butterfly resting on the ground. —Prasert Krainukul—Getty ImagesThink your back yard can get buggy in the summer—with mosquitoes, flies, moths, wasps, bees, lightning bugs, crickets, and more swarming, buzzing, and chirping everywhere? That’s nothing compared to the great global yard that is the Earth. According to the Smithsonian Institution, there are about 10 quintillion—or 10 with 18 zeroes—insects alive in the world at any given moment, representing the
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