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 ...

In collaboration with the Cornell University Insect Collection, the Museum of the Earth opened a new exhibit on March 28 called “Six-Legged Science: Unlocking the Secrets of the Insect World”. The ...

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George Diehl, of Crestwood, is an amateur entomologist who has been collecting insects across North America -- mostly Missouri -- for the past 60 years. The majority of his collection can be found on ...

A family wanders through the Bean Museum during the back-to-school event that inaugurated the Utah exhibit. Families from the community constitute the main visitors at the Bean Museum. (Bryan Barba ...

Biologists at the University of Costa Rica have uncovered 16 new species of leafhoppers after examining insect collections that sat untouched in museums for over three decades. The find also includes ...

One hundred years ago, naturalists and other outdoor enthusiasts had the foresight to collect and preserve natural specimens unique to the Great Basin. Those collections have been entrusted to the ...

CHICAGO -- Every displayed item has a story at The Insect Asylum, a vintage taxidermy museum in Chicago's Avondale neighborhood. Owner and founder Nina Salem has spent years curating her massive ...

An analysis of bumblebee wings from a network of UK museums shows signs of stress linked to increasingly hotter and wetter conditions. As well as revealing what is linked to stress in bees in the past ...