Origins: From Jungle to Lab.  The Story of Life's Complexity
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David Carter and Liz Wilder Entimologists

"Deforestation is kind of inevitable, I think, whether or not we would agree with it happening. People have got to grow food and they've got to farm, and they will farm... "
—Liz Wilder

Liz Wilder identifies  a butterfly and the frees it

"An obsessive sense of order, I think, is what it is, and for detail. I think you'll find many entomologists have been collectors in their early days of something or other, whether it be stamps or something of this sort—they like ordering things. And also, of course, it's just fascinating, a fascination for the insects themselves."
—David Carter on being an entomologist
 
Liz Wilder and butterfly trap Butterfly identification sample specimens Field to Lab
tagged specimens a science team enters the jungle moths  
 
   

Origins: Exploratorium: From Jungle to Lab


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