Bob Kimsey, middle top, looks on as students in one of his forensic entomology classes collect specimens from a pig carcass. The team is learning how to make visual inspections and collect temperature ...

UD’s Insect Research Collection provides Solomon Hendrix the tools to turn a passion for identifying insects into a future in entomological discovery At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Solomon ...

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 ...

A well-curated collection of local grasshoppers is useful for identification and display. Insect taxonomists often identify species by comparing unknown specimens with identified museum specimens.

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Establishing transparent provenance is the only way to bypass smuggling risks in modern insect collection trade. Antique insect ...

A researcher discovered an interesting tiger beetle in the Midwestern State University insect collection. The MSU Texas collection, featuring specimens collected by the late Walter Dalquest, is ...