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 ...

BROOKINGS, S.D. — To the pedestrian, the Severin-McDaniel Insect Research Collection is just a big room full of cabinets with drawers, filled with dead bugs. But to Paul J. Johnson, the century-old ...

Inside the largest entomology collection in America, there are insects that are out to fool you. We went backstage at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History to comb through the collection of 35 ...

No one is more enthusiastic about a cicada, their physical feats or insects as a whole, than Nicole Parish. And that's in ...

The county winners of the 2015 insect collections are making their way to the Kentucky State Fair, but it’s never too early to start collecting for 2016. Collecting insects throughout the year gives ...

A World War II-era weapons bunker in Irvine has a new mission — sheltering preserved insect specimens. When a collection of bugs floating in specimen bottles outgrew his laboratory, Robert Fisher ...

California has a way of exaggerating things—mountains, deserts, and egos. But its insects? They take excess to another level.

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 ...

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 ...