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 ...

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 ...

Amateur and professional entomologists are experts at their own version of Pokémon Go. After all, part of their job is to search for and collect rare insect species that are stored in the archives of ...

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.

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 ...

A longhorn beetle munching milkweed just over a fence in the neighbor's yard was a covetous sight for Gary Hevel, public affairs officer in the Entomology Section of Natural History's Department of ...

A researcher discovered an interesting tiger beetle in the Midwestern State University insect collection. The MSU Texas collection, featuring specimens collected by the late Walter Dalquest, is ...

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 ...