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 ...

Pinned and labeled eastern Hercules beetles are part of the Virginia Tech collection. Virginia Tech entomology professor Paul ...

COLLEGE STATION - Although many people don't realize it, the Texas A&M University department of entomology has for years had a collection of numerous different types of insects. "We have almost 2 ...

The Monte L. Bean Life Science Museum at Brigham Young University recently named its extensive entomology (insect) collection for two BYU emeritus professors, Richard W. Baumann and Stephen L. Wood.

To be a farmer, a forester or even a climate scientist, it can help to know a thing or two about insects, like what they eat, where they thrive, which ones pollinate and which ones spread disease. “I ...

Jennifer Zaspel, assistant professor, and Jeffrey Holland, associate professor, both in the Purdue Department of Entomology, pose with the robot called BugEye. Using 3-D imaging, BugEye is an ...

For the University of Arizona Insect Collection, several million specimens from the southwestern U.S. and around the world just aren’t enough. The department has received two grants totaling more than ...

Dr. Paul Johnson, 64, an entomologist at South Dakota State University, curates a collection of dead insects for SDSU, a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at collections that are used in research ...

The small collection of dry-mounted caterpillars held in The Albert J. Cook Arthropod Research Collection at Michigan State University would have emerged as butterflies decades before the first ...

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 ...

James Hyde's interest in insects will benefit scientists for decades to come. The estate of James and Marilyn Oliver Hyde, long-time Kennewick residents, has made the largest one-time contribution ...

It was a buggy life for entomologistsLois and Charlie O'Brien, who spent about 60 years of their relationship in the field collecting insects. Now, the couple is donating their collection of more than ...