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London: The experts at London's Natural History Museum pride themselves on being able to classify and display thousands of species.
They are confident they can identify most living things on the planet.
Except for a tiny red-and-black bug that has appeared in the museum's own gardens.
The almond-shaped insect is about the size of a grain of rice. The museum's collections manager, Max Barclay, said on Tuesday that it was first seen in March 2007 on some of the plane trees that grow on the grounds of the 19th-century museum.
Within three months, it had become the most common insect in the garden, and had also been spotted in other central London parks.
The museum has more than 28 million insect species in its collection, but none is an exact match for this insect.
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