California has a way of exaggerating things—mountains, deserts, egos. But its insects? They take excess to another level. Somewhere between the redwoods and the Salton Sea live perhaps 30,000, maybe ...

Christopher C. Grinter has spent much of his life surrounded by insects, though not in the way most people imagine. As Senior Collection Manager of Entomology at the California Academy of Sciences, he ...

California’s insects are as outsized as the state itself. Between its redwood forests and desert basins may live 60,000, perhaps even 100,000 species — though no one truly knows. That uncertainty ...

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