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 ...

The Natural History Museum is collaborating with Diamond Light Source, the UK's national synchrotron science facility, on an ambitious project to generate and share immense data from the Museum's vast ...

For more than two decades Dr. Richard Glatz has been on a one-man mission to catalog Kangaroo Island's insects. Since starting the collection in 1998, Richard has collected about 80,000 insect ...

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 ...

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

At first glance, the insect trapped in golden resin looked like any other tiny victim of deep time. Only under close ...

Have you seen any dead butterflies lately? If so, the U.S. Geological Survey wants you to mail them their way, along with deceased moths and skippers. The agency is collecting specimens from six ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

Explore the world of insects by adding an entomology minor to your graduate degree. This program is specially designed for students pursuing graduate research involving insects. You will deepen your ...