
INS021-00010
An entomologist scouts for El Segundo flower-loving fly (Rhaphiomidas terminatus terminatus). This insect was thought to be extinct since the end of the 1960s but a small remnant population of less than 100 individuals was discovered in the early 2000s.
Keywords
- back view
- bug
- color photography
- countdown to exctinction
- discovery
- El Segundo flower-loving fly
- El Segundo fly
- Entomologist
- extremely rare
- flies
- flower-loving fly
- fly
- full length
- horizontal
- insect
- investigate
- Man
- medium shot
- Net
- Pole
- rare
- recovery
- Rhaphiomidas terminatus terminatus
- Scientist
- scout
- Search
- studio portrait
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