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 ...
The Natural History Museum of Denmark houses a unique collection of 70,000 pieces of amber from various time periods.
The petrol-blue wings of a swallowtail butterfly, soft fur of a giant Patagonian bumblebee, and oil-painted smudges of a ladybug are some of the details captured by British photographer Levon Biss in ...
Last fall, the Yale Peabody Museum had a surplus of cigar boxes — dozens of them. It’s not that folks there were lighting up stogies left and right, though. The boxes had served a scientific purpose: ...
Crawl your way into the fascinating world of insects at ArtScience Museum’s latest exhibition, . Sometimes deemed as pests, ...
Beetles, butterflies and insects of all sorts are on display at the Frost Entomology Museum. Beetles, butterflies and insects of all sorts are on display at the Frost Entomology Museum at Penn State ...
Jennifer Angus uses her bare fingers to delicately remove a pin holding down the thorax of a large, green insect affixed to a foam board she had used to transport its body. She must be careful: the ...
The display will be featured in a new exhibition at the National Gallery of Art as part of a historic collaboration along the National Mall Jack Tamisiea Collection manager Floyd Shockley used ...
Insects: Microsculptures Magnified allows visitors to examine colours, textures and anatomical structures that often remain invisible. SINGAPORE – Perched on foliage, a darkling beetle can easily go ...
Over 70 new species, from insects to dinosaurs, were identified in 2025 by combining fieldwork, museum collections, and ...
In this Meet a SI-entist, Smithsonian Entomologist and Collections Manager Floyd Shockley reveals how insects impact our daily lives. Abigail Eisenstadt Entomologist and Collections Manager Dr. Floyd ...
ATLANTA, Ga. - Beetles, bees, and wasps. Let’s be honest; for many of us, these words don’t exactly conjure up feelings of goodwill. But look a little closer (well, maybe not too closely, depending on ...