Welcome Asterix, Obelix and Yoda! Finding fun in the serious matter of discovering insects
- Written by Nick Porch, Senior Lecturer in Environmental Earth Science, Deakin University
Do these look like Gauls to you? Three of the 103 new weevils identified in Indonesia were named after characters Asterix, Obelix and Idefix. Alexander Riedel
Forget the apes, we live on “The Planet of the Beetles”. Welcome.
With an estimated 387,000 formally described species, beetles (Coleoptera) are the most species-rich of the five...