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Playing cards with our native insects

13:36 pm on 13 October 2016

There are around 20 thousand insect species in New Zealand, and more than 90 percent are only found here. But most of us never really get to see them.

You may remember a few weeks ago we spoke to Leilani Walker, an expert on New Zealand's native spiders. Now she's teamed up with illustrator Emma Scheltema to create a set of native New Zealand insect playing cards.

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