Three million insects and a half a million dried plants, fungi and lichen specimens encased more than 450 visitors at Ohio State’s Museum of Biological Diversity this past weekend as the museum opened ...

Last fall, the Yale Peabody Museum had a surplus of cigar boxes — dozens of them. It’s not that folks there were lighting up stogies left and right, though. The boxes had served a scientific purpose: ...

Quick Take Achieving a $20,000 valuation requires antique insect collections to meet strict preservation standards. Missing ...

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 ...

If not for a pair of Smithsonian scientists, the fingernail-size frog from Brazil would have likely gone extinct without ever being described ...

Beetles, butterflies and insects of all sorts are on display at the Frost Entomology Museum. Beetles, butterflies and insects of all sorts are on display at the Frost Entomology Museum at Penn State ...

Bill Patterson has contributed numerous butterfly and moth specimens to the Bohart Museum of Entomology, including the peacock or green swallowtail (pictured), red lacewing, Linda emperor and Bates’ ...

Even at museums, bugs are hard to keep track of. In a report released last month, Denver Auditor Timothy O’Brien found that the Denver Museum of Nature & Science doesn’t have a method in place to keep ...

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 ...

Eudicella, a genus in the scarab beetle family, is part of a group known as flower beetles. This specimen was collected in what used to be known as the Gold Coast region of West Africa. This ...