Benji Jones (@benjij.bsky.social) is determined to discover a new species in NYC.
@vox.com's senior environmental correspondent gave our Science Friday producers a house tour of his Malaise trap in Prospect Park. This tent will hopefully catch an unknown insect hiding right in our own backyard.
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Over the summer, the traps will capture tiny flying critters, including parasitoid wasps and flies. We'll send what we collect to a lab for DNA analysis and then to expert taxonomists, who will help us figure out if we might have something new.
The chance of discovery is high, or so I'm told!!