We thought we’d find 200 species living in our house and yard. We were very wrong

  • Written by: Matthew H. Holden, Lecturer, School of Mathematics and Physics, The University of Queensland
We thought we’d find 200 species living in our house and yard. We were very wrongDot-underwing moth (_Eudocima materna_) found in the researchers' yard.Matthew Holden, CC BY-NC

We are biodiversity researchers – an ecologist, a mathematician and a taxonomist – who were locked down together during the COVID pandemic. Being restricted to the house, it didn’t take long before we began to wonder how many species of...

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