‘I love midges because I know what their hearts look like’: is the passion for taxonomy in danger of dying out?

O nce Art Borkent starts speaking about biting midges, he rarely pauses for breath. Holding up a picture of a gnat trapped in amber from the time of the dinosaurs, the 72-year-old taxonomist explains that there are more than 6,000 species known to science. He has described and named more than 300 mi...

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