The ongoing effort captures high-quality images and collection data in seconds, creating an online database of bees, beetles, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Over 120 years ago, James May was hunting bugs in Brazil; using beer to get butterflies drunk before catching them. “It’s ...

Here’s why the invasive Asian giant hornet’s identification is actually a scientific success story. Abigail Eisenstadt The Asian Giant Hornet, Vespa mandarinia, can grow up to two inches long and is a ...

ST PAUL, Minn. — Not far from the KARE 11 studio, at the University of Minnesota's Department of Entomology, there are millions of dead insects just hanging out in storage. So, naturally, we just had ...

After much discussion, the scientific community settled on an estimate of around six million species. This conservative ...

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 ...

The country's first Insect Museum at the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU), is set to be opened up to a global ...

Insects may be even more dominant on Earth than scientists thought. A new estimate suggests the planet could hold 14 million ...