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Article: Bugs! of New York: State Museum pioneer in collection and research. (includes a related article on giant model insects exhibited at the New York State Museum, Albany, NY)
- Article from:
- New York State Conservationist
- Article date:
- October 1, 1996
- Author:
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1996 New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Some 2,000 species of spiders, mites, ticks and other arachnids; 1,000 species of crustaceans; 30,000 species of insects; and a few dozen species of centipedes, millipedes and other myriapods. Sound like the cast of some new horror movie? Actually these are just the bugs that call New York State home.
New York's backyards are crawling with a myriad, of air-breathing arthropods we call bugs. They are the most diverse and abundant group of organisms in the state. No one has ever taken a census of the number of individual insects in the state, but the number is thought to be somewhere in the millions of billions. The weight of living material tied up in insect forms ...
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