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Scale Insect Collection across North America

Caption: Colored regions show distributions of pine tree species. Red dots are specimen collection points. Species discovery efforts are usually hampered by under-sampling, but the UMass Amherst-AMNH study enjoyed unusually large sample coverage.

Credit: Rodger Gwiazdowski and UMass Amherst

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