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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

UD’s Insect Research Collection provides Solomon Hendrix the tools to turn a passion for identifying insects into a future in entomological discovery At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Solomon ...

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 ...

BROOKINGS, S.D. — To the pedestrian, the Severin-McDaniel Insect Research Collection is just a big room full of cabinets with drawers, filled with dead bugs. But to Paul J. Johnson, the century-old ...

The wooden drawers look modest at first. With a light pine stain, a metal handle and a small, metallic framed label, they sit stacked in seemingly endless rows and columns. But to open any one of the ...

Dr. Paul Johnson, 64, an entomologist at South Dakota State University, curates a collection of dead insects for SDSU, a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at collections that are used in research ...