Eudicella, a genus in the scarab beetle family, is part of a group known as flower beetles. This specimen was collected in what used to be known as the Gold Coast region of West Africa. This ...

Deep in the bowels of the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at the University of California at Berkeley sits a large cabinet many people would rather not open. You smell it before you see it: an odor so ...

A brightly colored beetlecollected by Charles Darwin more than 180 years ago has been identified as a new species after hiding in museum storage for decades. The discovery of Darwinilus sedarisi whose ...

FAIRBANKS, Alaska – Beneath the lids of large coolers, thousands of tiny bugs devour the desiccated flesh of mammal carcasses destined for the vast specimens collection at the University of Alaska's ...

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Count Pierre Dejean may have been a general in Napoleon Bonaparte's army, but he was perhaps more intimidating as a beetle collector. By the time he died in 1845, Dejean had amassed a daunting ...

The small collection of dry-mounted caterpillars held in The Albert J. Cook Arthropod Research Collection at Michigan State University would have emerged as butterflies decades before the first ...

Entomologists at an insect collection in country New South Wales have a party trick they like to play. Visitors are given a pair of 3D glasses and asked to first close one eye and then the other while ...

Specimen collection involves the capture and euthanasia of wildlife for scientific study. One camp of scientists holds that specimen collection is necessary to document a new species, while the other ...

When State Library Victoria historian Anna Welch opened the pages of an almost 200-year-old book three years ago, her heart sank and her mouth went dry. The mystery of a series of beetle images cut ...