Just checking in on the bug. I hadn't heard any news about it for some time.
In the 80's, I remember wearing a Socorro Isopod T-Shirt while riding an elevator in the Physics & Astronomy building at the University of Arizona in Tucson, when the door opened and an renowned authority on isopods (nearly as rare in the world as the isopods themselves) entered the elevator, saw my T-Shirt, and got really excited.
The Socorro Isopod has the habit of cannibalizing its own young, which is a really-bad attribute for an exceedingly-rare species, particularly one that lives in such close confines. They have to get more of these bugs out in the world, if they are to stand a chance.
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