Thousands of preserved bug specimens from around the world have made their way to UMass Lowell to help enhance the study of insects. Biological Sciences Asst. Prof. Christina Kwapich is the new ...

Antique insect collections became exceedingly popular in the 1800s and early 1900s. They were often built as working ...

At 10,000 specimens and counting, Michigan Tech's digitized insect collection is relatively small. But its value is huge because of the unique historical perspective of the region you won't find ...

COLUMBIA, Mo. -- About 80 percent of all animals on the planet are insects, and the Enns Entomology Museum at the University of Missouri has one of the most important collections in the world. The ...

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 ...

For the University of Arizona Insect Collection, several million specimens from the southwestern U.S. and around the world just aren’t enough. The department has received two grants totaling more than ...

A new species of beetle has become the 150,000th specimen registered on the Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development's (DPIRD's ...

A stunning array of insects catch the light behind a glass pane where they hover on pegs above yellowed tags. The sheen of their fibrous wings and the careful posing of their articulated limbs make ...

As the Northern Territory's principal entomologist, Brian Thistleton is the custodian of an important collection — a database ...

Daniel Young discusses the collection of almost three million insects at UW-Madison. Daniel Young, Director of the Wisconsin Insect Research Collection at UW-Madison, explores the collection of almost ...