. >> the bioscan project wouldn't be possible without the devotion of volunteer citizen scientists. >> we were in the middle of los angles, yet you guys discovered a new species right here in your backyard. >> walter renwick and his daughter eleanore, are among the 30 families taking part in this program, the kind of new "lord of the flies", willing to make a long-term commitment to collecting bugs. >> so for three years you've got this thing out there? >> yes. >> were you intimated at all? >> in the beginning but actually elanore and i were talking about this earlier and we're half way through. i think we have maybe just a little more of a year left and elanore was really sad, she was like, oh now, i love that trap! >> six year old elanore is growing up with the large science experiment in her backyard. >> when i was little, when i was 5 years old, we found a sparkling beetle and then we started to like them because they were all sparkly. >> although the new flies are the aim of this project, a plethora of other insects are also in the bug soup. >> wow. >> whether it's beetles, ants