Jennifer Zaspel, assistant professor, and Jeffrey Holland, associate professor, both in the Purdue Department of Entomology, pose with the robot called BugEye. Using 3-D imaging, BugEye is an ...

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 ...

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BERLIN — In a brightly lit room on the third floor of the Museum of Natural History here, stacks of wooden drawers are covered in glass, some panes so dusty that it is difficult to discern exactly ...

This fall researchers at the Georgia Museum of Natural History at the University of Georgia will lead an effort to digitize around 2.1 million specimens from the order Lepidoptera—moths and ...

2.8 millions items in the National Museum of Natural History’s collections went open access on Feb. 25. Margaret Osborne These bumblebees were part of a mass digitization project at the Smithsonian’s ...

On the south side of campus, a wealth of knowledge sits in dark rooms, stored away in jars and drawers. This knowledge is in the form of specimens — over 9 million to be exact — including insects, ...

The Bishop Museum’s mollusk collection — including handwritten field notes going back 100 years — is scheduled to be digitized through a $1.3 million grant. Tricia Goulding, a researcher at the museum ...

WEST LAFAYETTE — Purdue University's Department of Entomology is using a special robot to tackle the daunting task of digitizing the school's collection of some 2 million insect specimens. The robot, ...