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 well-curated collection of local grasshoppers is useful for identification and display. Insect taxonomists often identify species by comparing unknown specimens with identified museum specimens.

Researchers and archivists from University of California are asking for help in transcribing field notes and identifying insect specimens dating back over 100 years. Among the collection is a Tierra ...

Researchers at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, together with data scientists, have developed a new method to largely automate the extraction of label information from digitized insect specimens. The ...

Berkeley — Like bugs? Ever wonder what goes on behind the scenes at natural history museums? Interested in helping scientists understand our changing environment? These are just some of the reasons ...

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 ...