{"id":240088,"date":"2026-07-01T07:38:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T12:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/scientists-have-only-discovered-a-tiny-fraction-of-living-insect-species"},"modified":"2026-07-01T07:38:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T12:38:20","slug":"scientists-have-only-discovered-a-tiny-fraction-of-living-insect-species","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/scientists-have-only-discovered-a-tiny-fraction-of-living-insect-species","title":{"rendered":"Scientists have only discovered a tiny fraction of living insect species"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-have-only-discovered-a-tiny-fraction-of-living-insect-species2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>About 1 million insect species have been described, but a new analysis suggests tens of millions more may be out there<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 1 million insect species have been described, but a new analysis suggests tens of millions more may be out there<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}