The diversity of insects (Wilson)
November 3rd, 2007 | Published in Biology, Ecology, Science, Quotes
At the Tambopata Reserve, Terry Erwin used a bug bomb to collect all the insects from a single leguminous tree in the rain forest. I identified the ants in his sample and found 43 species in 26 genera, approximately equal to the entire ant fauna of the British Isles.
–Edward O. Wilson, The Diversity of Life (1992, Harvard University Press), p. 198