insider.si.edu

Behind the Scenes: Backyard Bugs

A longhorn beetle munching milkweed just over a fence in the neighbor's yard was a covetous sight for Gary Hevel, public affairs officer in the Entomology Section of Natural History's Department of ...
New York Post

Rare Jurassic-era insect found at Arkansas Walmart

It had long been avoiding Targets. A gigantic insect from a species that once flourished in the age of the dinosaurs was found for the first time in decades on the façade of an Arkansas Walmart, ...
ucdavis.edu

Insect science matures into valued law enforcement tool

Bob Kimsey, middle top, looks on as students in one of his forensic entomology classes collect specimens from a pig carcass. The team is learning how to make visual inspections and collect temperature ...
Michigan Technological University

Michigan Tech Insect Collection Offers Regional History Lesson (As Told by Bugs)

A bored researcher, boxes of left-behind Husky homework and the painstakingly documented entomology specimens of a 1960s faculty member formed the chrysalis for the Michigan Technological University ...
ABC7 San Francisco

Giant flying insect found on Walmart building turns out to be Jurassic-era find

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. -- An insect found on the side of a Fayetteville, Arkansas, big-box store has been identified as the species Polystoechotes punctata, which belongs to a family of insects that ...
Purdue University

Purdue to showcase robot digitizing insect collection

Jennifer Zaspel, assistant professor, and Jeffrey Holland, associate professor, both in the Purdue Department of Entomology, pose with the robot called BugEye. Using 3-D imaging, BugEye is an ...
FOX8 Cleveland

Giant, rare insect found at Walmart makes history

(WJW) — An insect found on the side of a Walmart in Arkansas is exciting and mystifying researchers all while making history. The Polystoechotes punctata, commonly known as the giant lacewing, ...
Times Record News

A decades old part of MSU's insect collection yielded a new discovery. More are to be had

A researcher discovered an interesting tiger beetle in the Midwestern State University insect collection. The MSU Texas collection, featuring specimens collected by the late Walter Dalquest, is ...
Richmond Register

Insect Collecting Day Camp

This will be a day camp to catch, identify, and pin insects that we will collect over the course of the morning. We will meet at the Folk Center and walk to the nearby parks collecting the insects.
UMass Lowell

Bugging Out: Donation of Specimen Collection Boosts Study of Insects

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 ...
WOWT.com

Insect found outside Arkansas Walmart identified as Jurassic-era insect

UNIVERSITY PARK, Penn. (Gray News) – A giant insect found outside an Arkansas Walmart is setting historic records. The Polystoechotes punctata, or giant lacewing, was reportedly found in 2012 by ...