Germany set up 75 insect traps across the country, sequenced roughly four billion fragments of DNA from what they caught, and identified 10,803 species, while statistical modeling suggests the samples

A comprehensive DNA sequencing study of insects in Germany identified over 10,000 species, with modeling suggesting the actual number could be as high as 32,000. The findings underscore the massive scale of biodiversity that remains uncatalogued and the difficulty of tracking insect population declines.