"We have fully processed the specimen and ... created a 3D reconstruction." ...

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 ...

An extinct ant trapped in Baltic amber for tens of millions of years has yielded its internal anatomy to modern imaging ...

ST PAUL, Minn. — Not far from the KARE 11 studio, at the University of Minnesota's Department of Entomology, there are millions of dead insects just hanging out in storage. So, naturally, we just had ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Here’s why the invasive Asian giant hornet’s identification is actually a scientific success story. Abigail Eisenstadt The Asian Giant Hornet, Vespa mandarinia, can grow up to two inches long and is a ...

In recent years, human population growth, coupled with the climate crisis, environmental pressures, and current production ...