The Natural History Museum in London has a gargantuan task ahead: the mass digitization of its sprawling collections. Over the next five years, the museum plans to scan more than 20 million pinned ...

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 ...

Researchers have discovered a 100-million-year-old insect preserved in amber with a triangular head, almost-alien and 'E.T.-like' appearance and features so unusual that it has been placed in its own ...

New research in Medical and Veterinary Entomology reveals that when rhinoceroses are found dead after being illegally killed by poachers, analyzing insects on the decomposing body aids in estimating ...

If possible, emailing digital photos of an unidentified insect pest can save time and save you on mailing costs. Things to remember when considering digital pictures: If insect is found feeding on a ...

A new species of beetle has become the 150,000th specimen registered on the Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development's (DPIRD's ...

A first-of-its-kind study used herbarium specimens to track insect herbivory across more than a century, and found that, across four species -- shagbark hickory (Carya ovata), swamp white oak (Quercus ...

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 ...

Austin Baker and his team at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County are leading an ambitious effort to DNA-barcode every insect species in California as part of the statewide CalATBI ...

A Commack man has pleaded guilty to running a smuggling operation that imported and exported more than 17,000 dried specimens of exotic and endangered butterflies, bees and other insects. Charles ...