Los Angeles Times

This WWII weapons bunker has a new mission: Sheltering a scientist’s insect collection

A World War II-era weapons bunker in Irvine has a new mission — sheltering preserved insect specimens. When a collection of bugs floating in specimen bottles outgrew his laboratory, Robert Fisher ...
Science Daily

DNA From Old Insects: No Need To Destroy The Specimen

Ancient DNA can now be retrieved from various insect remains without destruction of the specimens. Ancient DNA can now be retrieved from various insect remains without destruction of the specimens.
Lansing State Journal

At MSU, a 153-year-old insect collection is being used to solve modern problems

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 ...
The Harvard Crimson

Decades of Digitizing: The Quest to Reconstruct Seven Million Insects

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 ...
Science Daily

'Off-the-shelf' equipment used to digitize insects in 3-D: Model insects useful for studying, sharing specimens

Scientists have developed a cost-effective, off-the-shelf system to obtain natural-color 3-D models of insects. Scientists studying insects rely on collected specimens that are often shared between ...