A new “Insect Investigators” program led by the South Australian museum is now calling for 50 schools across Queensland, Western Australia and South Australia to join an official program to help scientists find and catalogue insects.
University of the Sunshine Coast ecologist Andy Howe says, “There are an estimated 200,000 insect species with 62,000 identified and described”.
With the program running for four weeks in February next year, more than 50 schools will be participating.