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 ...

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 ...

The Natural History Museum in London has a gargantuan task ahead: the mass digitization of its sprawling collections. Over the next five years, the museum plans to scan more than 20 million pinned ...

The Natural History Museum is collaborating with Diamond Light Source, the UK's national synchrotron science facility, on an ambitious project to generate and share immense data from the Museum's vast ...

In this Meet a SI-entist, Smithsonian Entomologist and Collections Manager Floyd Shockley reveals how insects impact our daily lives. Abigail Eisenstadt Entomologist and Collections Manager Dr. Floyd ...

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 ...

Insects: Microsculptures Magnified allows visitors to examine colours, textures and anatomical structures that often remain invisible. SINGAPORE – Perched on foliage, a darkling beetle can easily go ...

When the Bohart Museum of Entomology at UC Davis hosts an open house, “Insects and U” on Sunday afternoon for the public to get acquainted with insects, it will also be a time to get acquainted with ...

Jennifer Angus uses her bare fingers to delicately remove a pin holding down the thorax of a large, green insect affixed to a foam board she had used to transport its body. She must be careful: the ...

Biodiversity day at the Häagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven includes catching bees to look at them, then releasing them. (Kathy Keatley Garvey/UC Davis) UC Davis will hold its seventh annual Biodiversity ...

ATLANTA, Ga. - Beetles, bees, and wasps. Let’s be honest; for many of us, these words don’t exactly conjure up feelings of goodwill. But look a little closer (well, maybe not too closely, depending on ...