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 ...

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 ...

About 80% of all animals on the planet are insects, and the Enns Entomology Museum at MU has one of the most important collections about them in the world. The Enns museum in the Agriculture Building ...

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 ...

Researchers at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, together with data scientists, have developed a new method to largely automate the extraction of label information from digitized insect specimens. The ...

Schlinger Chair of Entomology Alex Harman, Ph.D. | Photo by Emerson Harman Harman with a Blue Morpho in Butterflies Alive! (exhibit open through September 1 in 2025). | Photo by Santa Barbara Museum ...

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 ...