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    This WWII weapons bunker has a new mission: Sheltering a scientist’s insect collection

    LOS ANGELES — A World War II-era weapons bunker in Irvine has a new mission — sheltering preserved insect specimens. When a collection of bugs floating in specimen bottles outgrew his laboratory, Robert Fisher moved them into an abandoned weapons bunker at the former El Toro Marine Corps Air Station in Irvine. Now, the fortification protects 6,000 invertebrates suspended in ethanol alcohol. ...
    by Louis Sahagún, Los Angeles Times Jan 05, 2023 3 minutes
    U.S. Geological Survey biologist Jared Heath opens the massive steel doors of a former WWII munitions bunker at the decommissioned El Toro Marine Corp Air Station on Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2022, in Irvine, California.

    LOS ANGELES — A World War II-era weapons bunker in Irvine has a new mission — sheltering preserved insect specimens.

    When a collection of bugs floating in specimen bottles outgrew his laboratory, Robert Fisher moved them into an abandoned weapons bunker at the former El Toro Marine Corps Air Station in Irvine.

    Now, the fortification protects 6,000 invertebrates suspended in ethanol alcohol. Fisher, a research biologist with the U.S. Geological Survey, began collecting the specimens 25 years ago, when far fewer wild populations in California were in danger of extinction.

    “For years,

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