[neverdem]

They don't know what they don't know. It's not something new.

[DieHard the Hunter]

I’m looking at a large, prehistoric bug on my desk. It is called a “Weta”, and it is the coolest bug in the world. Only found in New Zealand, and he (for it is a he, this time) is very much alive.

They look dangerous, but aside from a nasty wee nip, they’re quite harmless. We tend to treat them like exotic animals rather than bugs in NZ: most people wouldn’t dream of stepping on one.

He can jump, much like a grass-hopper. Huge long antennae that he uses as feelers. Unchanged in over a million years.

> They don’t know what they don’t know. It’s not something new.

Scientists still know very little about the Weta. They really don’t even know what questions to ask.

As for me and my Weta mate, we’re going to do the FRee Republic thing for another half hour, then watch “The Guns of Navarone” together — assuming this Weta doesn’t get bored.

[Just mythoughts]

Foster explains. The problem, he adds, is that "we do not know how much spending is going into rapid assessment programmes and whether long-term studies are being underfunded because of this allocation".

Bama's educated voters no doubt.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks neverdem. Montserrat also got depopulated during the 1990s when most of those living there (one of whom I knew at the time) had to flee the volcanic eruption.

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[r9etb]

So the obvious question is ... are there ever multiple short-duration surveys that can be put together to create a dataset covering a longer time-span?