Three million insects and a half a million dried plants, fungi and lichen specimens encased more than 450 visitors at Ohio State’s Museum of Biological Diversity this past weekend as the museum opened ...

Bill Patterson has contributed numerous butterfly and moth specimens to the Bohart Museum of Entomology, including the peacock or green swallowtail (pictured), red lacewing, Linda emperor and Bates’ ...

In this Meet a SI-entist, Smithsonian Entomologist and Collections Manager Floyd Shockley reveals how insects impact our daily lives. Abigail Eisenstadt Entomologist and Collections Manager Dr. Floyd ...

The display will be featured in a new exhibition at the National Gallery of Art as part of a historic collaboration along the National Mall Jack Tamisiea Collection manager Floyd Shockley used ...

Jennifer Angus uses her bare fingers to delicately remove a pin holding down the thorax of a large, green insect affixed to a foam board she had used to transport its body. She must be careful: the ...

When the Bohart Museum of Entomology at UC Davis hosts an open house, “Insects and U” on Sunday afternoon for the public to get acquainted with insects, it will also be a time to get acquainted with ...

Insects: Microsculptures Magnified allows visitors to examine colours, textures and anatomical structures that often remain invisible. SINGAPORE – Perched on foliage, a darkling beetle can easily go ...

More than a century ago, students and faculty at the University of Iowa collected insects from around Iowa and as far away as Fiji. Pinned on cards with tiny labels, more than 40,000 of those insects ...

Digitization is a crucially important part of every natural history museum’s work these days. Not only do museums house tens of thousands of specimens, but they are striving every day to turn those ...