The cherry on the cake for our successful Island BioBlitz event was a new species being discovered on top of the amazing final species count of 447!

The Myrid Bug, Hallodapus rufescens was discovered by Dr. David Biggs, an expert from the Isle of Wight Natural History and Archaeological Society. Dr Biggs had to enlist the help of the UK's top bug expert and a specialist book dating from 1923 to confirm the bug's identity.

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