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Field Notes from the Montana Natural History Center by Montana Public Radio

Jun 11, 20264:19Science & Medicine

I can’t stop staring at them. Their beauty seems otherworldly; they’re radiantly fluorescent against the snow. It’s almost scandalous, that neon green, that buzzing orange.

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