Vox is setting out to discover a new animal species in the heart of New York City.<\/p>\n
We\u2019ll focus our search on insects that are both incredibly diverse and poorly understood, including parasitoid wasps<\/a> (which lay their eggs in other insects) and flies in the family Phoridae<\/a> (known as the scuttle flies). These animal groups fall into a category called \u201cdark taxa<\/a>\u201d because most of their species \u2014 of which there are tens of thousands \u2014 are still undescribed by science and thus \u201cin the dark.\u201d<\/p>\n We\u2019ll wrap up the collection process at the end of August, and then work with scientists to see if we might have discovered something new. We\u2019ll post any project updates here.<\/p>\n For more information about the project and related stories, please see below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vox is setting out to discover a new animal species in the heart of New York City. We\u2019ll…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246162,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3431,3432,9,24,55,54,56],"class_list":["post-246161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-climate","tag-down-to-earth","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}