[Taxacom] see no weevil, hear no weevil, speak no weevil ...

[James Whitfield]

Agreed. just ridiculous.

> this is surely worth a read:
> http://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/5707449/Globes-species-may-number-just-two-million
> ?
> throwing numbers around like baked beans in a kindergarten ...
> ?
> I very much doubt that 100 years from now, even all the species which live
> on the Tamaki Campus here will have been described and documented! The
> rate of description of mites, nematodes, micro-Hymenoptera, micro-fungi,
> etc. is very low, but the actual diversity is high ...
> ?
> In the tropical rainforests, who can even guess how many species are
> present??
> ?
> Stephen
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