The ongoing effort captures high-quality images and collection data in seconds, creating an online database of bees, beetles, ...
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 ...
Over 120 years ago, James May was hunting bugs in Brazil; using beer to get butterflies drunk before catching them. “It’s ...
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 ...
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 ...
A stunning array of insects catch the light behind a glass pane where they hover on pegs above yellowed tags. The sheen of their fibrous wings and the careful posing of their articulated limbs make ...
Digitization is a crucially important part of every natural history museum’s work these days. Not only do museums house tens of thousands of specimens, but they are striving every day to turn those ...
A set of amber specimens once owned by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe contains insect fossils that have been preserved in resin for tens of millions of years. Goethe's Baltic amber collection, kept at the ...
🛍️ Amazon Prime Day: The best deals chosen by our editors 🛍️ By Darren Incorvaia/Undark Published Jul 9, 2023 9:00 PM EDT This article was originally published on Undark. In a dusty room in central ...
A giant lacewing found at an Arkansas Walmart in 2012 is being heralded as the first specimen of its kind seen in eastern North America in more than 50 years. By Emily Schmall It took the Covid-19 ...
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Earth may be home to 3x more insect species than scientists thought
Insects may be even more dominant on Earth than scientists thought. A new estimate suggests the planet could hold 14 million to 20 million insect species, far above the long-accepted figure of about 6 ...
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