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 ...

LEGO collectors have loved growing and building their brick gardens with the new floral and plant sets. However, things are getting a new creepy crawler release that will display beautifully with ...

There are so many insects in the world it’s impossible to comprehend their actual numbers. There are just too many of them! Even if you could picture how many are out there you wouldn’t want to. Their ...

There are 3 million insects in an inconspicuous room on Washington State University’s campus. Completely filling row after row of metal cabinets, each individual specimen is pinned and labeled with ...

The titan beetle (Titanus giganteus) may just be the insect equivalent of a giant, flawless diamond. The species has a reputation that borders on myth, given that it’s rarely seen alive, which is why ...

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 ...

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 ...