A new bug is joining the shelves of the Museum of Comparative Zoology’s 7-million-strong insect collection, one made not of antennae and exoskeleton, but of wires and lenses: “Lightning Bug,” a ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Establishing transparent provenance is the only way to bypass smuggling risks in modern insect collection trade. Antique insect ...

CHAMPAIGN (AP) - Scientists based in Champaign with the Illinois Natural History Survey are part of an effort to digitize photographs of millions of insects. The ...

Achieving a $20,000 valuation requires antique insect collections to meet strict preservation standards. Missing essential insect label data converts Victorian specimens into scientifically worthless ...

Insect aficionados from across the world can now become part of a UC Berkeley entomology research team through a new citizen science project, which officially launched last Wednesday. CalBug, a ...

Washington State University's MT James Entomological Collection is the largest insect museum in the state, it holds around three million specimens. In 2022, state legislators allocated $50,000 for the ...

Antique insect collections became exceedingly popular in the 1800s and early 1900s. They were often built as working reference libraries, containing pinned and labeled insects so that naturalists ...