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Note that this is described species. Beetles are really easy to preserve and are often super cool. There are likely more species in other orders, but they haven’t had as much work done on them. Hymenoptera, for example, with all of the parasitic wasps probably has more species but they can be so freaking small and difficult to work with.

Sorry, I am like a wanna be entomologist who works with akshual entomologists and this is one of the things that triggers them

I will take BO over perfume all day everyday

You do you. I subscribe to the “variety is the spice of life” mindset. I need different styles for different use cases and different colors just for fun.

I know lots of people love them, but I had one for a hot minute and found it totally pointless. I have an oven and a toaster oven, and for me it did not fit what I use the microwave for.

I mean, they don’t have doorbells or anything so what am I supposed to do??

Excuse me, Mrs. Wasp, on a scale of 1-10 how much do you agree with the following statements?

I put out traps baited with pheromone lures (mainly) and then go around collecting samples and checking to see if we caught what we were looking out for. Some of the samples go back to the lab and everything gets identified to make sure there is nothing new or to track how far things have moved. We are mainly looking for crop pests that are not yet known to the area.

I wish!

I do invasive insect surveys

Yesssss

As an entomologist the era of the Lämp was heaven