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 ...

A World War II-era weapons bunker in Irvine has a new mission — sheltering preserved insect specimens. When a collection of bugs floating in specimen bottles outgrew his laboratory, Robert Fisher ...

BROOKINGS, S.D. — To the pedestrian, the Severin-McDaniel Insect Research Collection is just a big room full of cabinets with drawers, filled with dead bugs. But to Paul J. Johnson, the century-old ...

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 ...

A bored researcher, boxes of left-behind Husky homework and the painstakingly documented entomology specimens of a 1960s faculty member formed the chrysalis for the Michigan Technological University ...

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 ...

A year later, the state budgeted $10 million to pull DNA out of historic insect collections, as well as to launch ambitious new field studies to better understand the extent of California’s ...

Dr. Paul Johnson, 64, an entomologist at South Dakota State University, curates a collection of dead insects for SDSU, a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at collections that are used in research ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. U.S. Geological Survey biologist Jared Heath opens the massive steel doors of a former World War II munitions bunker at the ...