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We think we just discovered some new species living in New York City

A random selection of some of the insects that we collected in NYC. | Paige Vickers/Vox; BOLD Earlier this summer, Vox set up two big bug traps in New York City — like, literal traps that catch bugs. Our goal was to try to discover a new insect species right in the middle of the city because the bulk of them are still unknown to science. We now have some exciting, albeit preliminary, results to share. During the month of June — the only month we’ve analyzed so far — our traps captured an estimated 12,000 insect specimens, which we sent to a lab at the University of Guelph in Canada...