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Insect expert Isa Betancourt tells us about her bug-hunting adventures in Borneo…

Hi! My name is Isa, and I’m an entomologist – a scientist that studies insects. Did you know that there are over 1 million insect species living all over the world? And those are just the ones we know about! Scientists think there are still up to 8 million more that haven’t been discovered yet -and I want to help find them. So, in October 2022, I went on a trip to Indonesian Borneo in Southeast Asia to search for insects in a unique habitat that had never been studied before: orangutan nests! BEDS IN THE TREES When you think about nests, you probably imagine the ones birds make to lay their eggs in. But orangutans don’t lay eggs – their nests are for sleeping in! At dusk, high in the canopy, the apes snap and bend tree branches, carefully weaving them together to form a…

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