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Counting Bugs In Panama? Get Out Your Tree Raft

Ceratina guarnacciona, female, back, Dominican Republic_2012-10-31-14.57.35 ZS PMax by USGS Bee Inventory and Monitoring Laboratory
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Audio for this story from Morning Edition will be available at approximately 9:00 a.m. ET. Researchers collected almost 130,000 arthropods from more than 6,000 species from a section of forest in Panama over two years. It took another eight years for the insects to be classified. Here's a small sampling.

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Insect Crustacean Invertebrate Species Arthropod

Counting Bugs In Panama? Get Out Your Tree Raft

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Country: Panama

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Researchers wanted to take a census of all of the insects living in a small section of rainforest in Panama. To do this, they went up in a balloon, hung from a crane and walked atop the canopy in a huge tree raft. All told, they collected almost 130,000 specimens from more than 6,000 species.

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