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Letter: Metamorphosis

Published 2 May 2007

From Stewart Easton

Arthur Shapiro says that losing populations of established butterfly species is “like discovering that cockroaches are becoming extinct in cities” (14 April, p 46). In what way would that be a bad thing?

London, UK

Issue no. 2602 published 5 May 2007

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