Find a Lot of Bugs When You Clean Your Backyard Swimming Pool? Scientists Want to See Them.

Jere Schweikert, an entomologist at the California Academy of Sciences, was cleaning the pool in his backyard in Marin County when the opportunity occurred to him. “I just got this feeling that I was tossing a lot of good bugs over the fence,” he says. “For years I’ve seen bugs splattered on people’s car radiators and I’ve been wondering what they were. One day it just occurred to me to look at the insects I was cleaning out of my pool.”

https://baynature.org/article/those-bugs-swimming-pool-save-them-for-science/

Posted on September 3, 2017 10:11 AM by biohexx1 biohexx1

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