Pinned and labeled eastern Hercules beetles are part of the Virginia Tech collection. Virginia Tech entomology professor Paul ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Your News story “Curators bugged by museum's vision for insect collection” (Nature 432, 659; 2004) gave the impression that Darwin Centre II (DCII) will be incompatible with a ‘cyber-infrastructure’ ...

The latest Lego set is here to usher in some Zen. Lego’s newest drop, the Insect Collection, comes with its very own ASMR playlist that you can enjoy while you build. Created by Emmy-nominated foley ...

LEGO doesn’t always make a big announcement when a fan-favorite set is on its way out, but longtime builders know the signs, and LEGO Ideas The Insect Collection ($80) is officially entering its final ...

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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 ...

The wooden drawers look modest at first. With a light pine stain, a metal handle and a small, metallic framed label, they sit stacked in seemingly endless rows and columns. But to open any one of the ...

The Insect Collection app taps into the public’s combined curiosity for things creepy and crawly and love of applying artistic filters and silly annotations to photographs. Merging education and ...