TY - JOUR AU - Ballmer, Greg TI - Sidebar: Nation's richest insect diversity in California JF - California Agriculture JO - Calif Agr Y1 - 1995/11/01 VL - 49 IS - 6 SP - 51 EP - 52 PB - University of California Agriculture and Nature Resources SN - 0008-0845 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.3733/ca.v049n06p51 L3 - 10.3733/ca.v049n06p51 AB - Abstract Not Available – First paragraph follows: The broad diversity of local conditions that permit California growers to produce the broadest range of agricultural products anywhere in the United States also yield the nation's richest diversity of insects. While no one has added up the number of known insect species in California and new species are still being discovered, one conservative estimate is that there are about 27,000 insect species in California. That is roughly 30% of the estimated total for all of North America north of Mexico.