Los Angeles Natural History Museum Entomologist Emily Hartop has announced the discovery of 30 previously unknown species of fly native to the city. Strangely enough, these flies were all captured during one three-month hunt in neighborhood backyards and gardens throughout the city. Hartop comments, “It’s one of those situations where you have to keep pinching yourself. I’d be less surprised to find hundreds of new species of Megaselia (a common genus of fly) at a remote site in Costa Rica than I was to find 30 new species right here in L.A.” Read more http://www.piercepioneer.com/30-new-species-of-fly-discovered-within-los-angeles/39531
