Tahiti: A Paradise for New Beetle Species

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Mont Aorai, Tahiti

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Bug catching in the rainforest

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The researchers, led by a Cornell entomologist, first spray low foliage with an organic chemical and then collect the bugs on a white sheet.

Mecyclothorax muriauxi

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Mecyclothorax kayballae

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Mecyclothorax taatitore

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Laura Poppick
Laura Poppick
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Laura Poppick is a contributing writer for Live Science, with a focus on earth and environmental news. Laura has a graduate certificate in science communication from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a Bachelor of Science degree in geology from Bates College in Lewiston, Maine. Laura has a good eye for finding fossils in unlikely places, will pull over to examine sedimentary layers in highway roadcuts, and has gone swimming in the Arctic Ocean.