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 ...
Jennifer Angus uses her bare fingers to delicately remove a pin holding down the thorax of a large, green insect affixed to a foam board she had used to transport its body. She must be careful: the ...
The petrol-blue wings of a swallowtail butterfly, soft fur of a giant Patagonian bumblebee, and oil-painted smudges of a ladybug are some of the details captured by British photographer Levon Biss in ...
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (WKRC) — A giant, flying bug found at a Walmart turned out to be a rare insect from the Jurassic period. Michael Skvarla, the director of Penn State University’s Insect ...
This moth specimen was mistakenly identified as a butterfly in 1793, leaving biologists to wonder what happened to the missing "butterfly" for more than 200 years. Trustees of the Natural History ...
Thousands of preserved bug specimens from around the world have made their way to UMass Lowell to help enhance the study of insects. Biological Sciences Asst. Prof. Christina Kwapich is the new ...
ST PAUL, Minn. — Not far from the KARE 11 studio, at the University of Minnesota's Department of Entomology, there are millions of dead insects just hanging out in storage. So, naturally, we just had ...
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 ...
Inside Wanghin Lab, entomology meets art as two brothers get the city back in touch with nature, one pin at a time ...
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Tiny airborne insects are leaving DNA trails in the sky
For all the insects that you see, there are dozens more zipping above your head. Many are too small to catch with the naked ...
Austin Baker and his team at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County are leading an ambitious effort to DNA-barcode every insect species in California as part of the statewide CalATBI ...
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Scientists found a tiny insect trapped in amber since the dinosaur era with a weird feature
A 125-million-year-old mosquito preserved in Lebanese amber has become the oldest confirmed mosquito ever identified by ...
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