Benjamin Thompson
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746 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 2 Sep
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And it's really hard to conserve a species if you don't know it's there.
I remember talking to someone who discovered a new lizard in Ecuador a few years back, and they said that by giving it a name, by giving it a hook that you can hang a label on.
That can then direct things like funds for conservation or, you know, getting media attention, that sort of thing.
So I think in that instance it's kind of important.
But it's gonna be a heck of a job though, because they found loads of stuff already.
They found it.
Preliminary data suggests that the number of species could surpass forty thousand, many of which will likely be new.
And this number is apparently less than one percent of the widely accepted
of all the insects living worldwide.
And people put that number about six million.
But this forty thousand is for a single location in the Amazon.
So if you, much like our story about the archaeology, expand that out.
The numbers I mean, they boggle the mind a little bit.
It has to be said.
Oh yes.
Someone who's not the biggest fan of insects, who respects them from a distance.
This one it gave me pause for thought, I have to say.
But the article quotes one of the leaders of the project, someone called Dalton Amarin, who is an entomologist.
And he and his team are sequencing over three hundred thousand specimens, which they're expecting to have done at the end of August.
And he says that most of the things they've seen so far are flies and mosquitoes, which you might imagine.
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