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If we don’t start counting insect populations, we won’t know what we’re losing (commentary)

MONGABAY · Prayan Pokharel ·

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Panchase Protected Forest, in the hills above Nepal’s second city of Pokhara, is known among botanists as an orchid haven. Hundreds of species grow there, many of them found nowhere else in Nepal. I have been working in Panchase for some time now, starting with the insects that live on mistletoes, trying to understand who […]

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