New York City's Hidden World: What Insect Discovery Reveals About Our Relationship With Nature New York City's streets are often thought of as a bastion of human activity, but recent discoveries suggest that the city may be home to a multitude of unknown insect species.
The 12,000 specimens collected by Vox this summer have yielded over two dozen barcode groups significantly different from anything currently recorded in the BOLD database.
These findings underscore the extent to which we've underestimated the diversity of life on our planet.