entomologist
"Sometimes, being an entomologist is like being a detective. Hagler and Naranjo went to the cotton fields and collected insects and spiders to look for clues. The entomologists crushed the specimens they had collected and put them on a special plate. Then they looked at what was inside their specimens' ..."
"Being a budding entomologist is like being a child in a muggle world, and getting your letter from Hogwarts. Suddenly, all around you, a whole new world opens up – things that were there before, unnoticed, are now glaringly obvious to you even as the rest of the world carries on, oblivious. Like running up ..."
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