From Science to Status Symbols: Why Antique Insect Collections Can Sell for $20,000

Antique insect collections became exceedingly popular in the 1800s and early 1900s. They were often built as working ...
Natural History Museum%2c London

Pinned Insect Digitisation

The Museum has over 25 million pinned insects in the collection with extensive taxonomic and geographic information dating back 300 years The Digital Collections Programme has refined our pinned ...
The Harvard Crimson

Decades of Digitizing: The Quest to Reconstruct Seven Million Insects

A new bug is joining the shelves of the Museum of Comparative Zoology’s 7-million-strong insect collection, one made not of antennae and exoskeleton, but of wires and lenses: “Lightning Bug,” a ...
Smithsonian Magazine

One of the ‘Rarest Butterflies Ever’ May Have Been a Moth All Along

This moth specimen was mistakenly identified as a butterfly in 1793, leaving biologists to wonder what happened to the missing "butterfly" for more than 200 years. Trustees of the Natural History ...