The display will be featured in a new exhibition at the National Gallery of Art as part of a historic collaboration along the National Mall Jack Tamisiea Collection manager Floyd Shockley used ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. HONOLULU (KHON2) — The University of Hawai‘i Insect Museum is looking to celebrate insects and help preserve native insects by ...

For nearly two centuries, a point of Chicago’s civic pride has been its connection to the natural world. One of our mottos, “Urbs in Horto,” extols ours as a city in a garden. Yet not everyone in the ...

PORT ANGELES — If you imagine you’re being observed when you visit Jennifer Angus’ installation Hidden World at the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center, you might be right. There are eyes everywhere. Used ...

Move over “Live Laugh Love” sign and “Tournée du Chat Noir” poster. More and more people want dead bugs on their walls, albeit in tasteful frames and poses. That’s what Morgan Loftin reports. She and ...

Last fall, the Yale Peabody Museum had a surplus of cigar boxes — dozens of them. It’s not that folks there were lighting up stogies left and right, though. The boxes had served a scientific purpose: ...

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 ...

At an entrance of the University of Florida’s Steinmetz Hall, home of what one university survey rates as the world’s top entomology department, sits a display case of bejeweled curios. When you look ...

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 ...