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- W2314833774 abstract "A giant cicada with a menacing expi-ession peers down from a signboard as you enter the Smithsonian Natural History Museum's new insect zoo, just opened this week in Washington. A tiny human, no taller than one spiky tarsus of the monster's foot, stands dwarfed below. In the animal world, the sign explains, the arthropod is king. Man and his vertebrate relatives barely register on the roll of animal species; 94 percent of the total are invertebrates and 83 percent of those are joint-legged arthropods (insects, crustaceans, millipedes, arachnids and centipedes). This dominant group will still be underrepresented at the Smithsonian-and rightly so. How many, after all, would flock to a museum in which beetles, spider mites, hermit crabs and their cousins claimed more than nine-tenths of the space? But disproportional representation notwithstanding, this living insect display-the first of its kind in the United States-will finally begin to give the earth's most successful survivors a spot in the public consciousness. What began four years ago as a temporary, amateur insect zoo stuck off in a corner, says Smithsonian entomologist Terry Erwin, turned out to be one of the most popular areas in the whole museum. So we decided to expand. The permanent display now houses more than a hundred arthropod species and several thousand individuals, and fills a large, sunny room on the museum's second floor. Clear plastic cages, some free-standing, some along the walls, house most of the creatures and display their behavior. In one, a dozen huge, black Eastern Lubber grasshoppers bask and mate on a dry tree branch. In the same cube, plump tobacco hornworms suck juice from the stem of a sad-looking tomato plant. (It has to be replaced two or three times a week, a zookeeper says.) In another plastic cage-this one red to simulate darkness inside-a group of alltoo-familiar cockroaches swarm thickly over kitchen utensils. And across the room, several thousand honeybees work over the wax honeycomb inside a tall, narrow glass and aluminum case. The case is installed near the wall and is connected to the outside with a clear plastic pipe. The workers can thus gather pollen and nectar in downtown Washington. (The Transparent hive has exit to outdoors." @default.
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