Smithsonian Institution entomologist Gary Hevel made a splash at last year's Rock Creek Park BioBlitz when he arrived with many of the more than 4,000 insect species he had collected in his own Silver Spring, Maryland backyard.
Rock Creek Park is adjacent to Silver Spring. How much more impressive, then, when Gary showed up in Santa Monica, more than 2,000 miles from home, with all those insects! Do you ship thousands of insects across the country or try to check them at the airport? Neither, says Gary. "I drove here!"
Photograph by Ford Cochran/NGS
POSTED BY FORD COCHRAN/BIOBLITZ TEAM AT 9:14 PM PDT
