Mystery insect bugging experts at London museum
July 15, 2008 By MEERA SELVA , Associated Press Writer
In this undated image made available by Natural History Museum, showing the tiny red-and-black bug which is thought to be a new species of insect, and that has appeared inside London's Natural History Museum gardens, according to information made available Monday July 14, 2008. The almond-shaped insect, about the size of a grain of rice seems to thrive on plane trees at the grounds of the 19th-century museum, but this insect is not the same as any of the 28 million insects currently classified by the museum, "I don't expect to find a new species in the gardens of a museum," said Max Barclay, Collections Manager at the Natural History Museum.( AP Photo/Natural History Museum)
(AP) -- The experts at London's Natural History Museum pride themselves on being able to identify species from around the globe, from birds and mammals to insects and snakes. Yet they can't figure out a tiny red-and-black bug that has appeared in the museum's own gardens.
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It only lives on Box Elder trees, so far as I know. http://maple.dnr...._box.htm
Question: are there Box Elder trees in London?
Exactly what I thought. Silly scientists.
Yea we already tried that... From what I've heard it didn't go over too well. Just ask Jesse Jackson and Whoopi Goldberg.