A bored researcher, boxes of left-behind Husky homework and the painstakingly documented entomology specimens of a 1960s faculty member formed the chrysalis for the Michigan Technological University ...

CHAMPAIGN — A single leafhopper is small, but the task at hand is enormous. Scientists at the Illinois Natural History Survey in Champaign, part of the Prairie Research Institute at the University of ...

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 well-curated collection of local grasshoppers is useful for identification and display. Insect taxonomists often identify species by comparing unknown specimens with identified museum specimens.

As the Northern Territory's principal entomologist, Brian Thistleton is the custodian of an important collection — a database of 56,000 insects notated, archived, and preserved in a climate-controlled ...

Researchers who saved a collection containing about 200,000 creepy crawlers from destruction hope the specimens can be used to uncover the impacts of climate change on the critter's evolution. Decades ...

SANTA CRUZ >> This summer is the first in decades that Randall Morgan isn’t roaming Santa Cruz County’s hillsides with his butterfly net and magnifying glasses, collecting plant and insect specimens.