Entomologist Seok Du-myung's insect collection was destroyed in the Korean War. But the discovery of some specimens in Japan has shone a spotlight on his work.

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Specimens and their associated data are used as the basis for original collections-based research on the taxonomy, life history, geography, and evolutionary history of insects, arachnids, and ...

The collection also has a taxonomic significance as Linnaeus mentions part of the collection in his Systema Naturae, 1758. The Sloane collection contains insect specimens collected and purchased by ...

The Luomus zoological collections comprise some 10 million specimens, mostly of insects. The collections are primarily used for taxonomic and systematic research in Finland and abroad. They are also ...

In a nutshell Ferruaspis brocksi was found with its stomach contents, skin pigmentation, and even a parasitic mussel still ...

and information from specimen labels can inform us how animals are reacting to climate change. Recently, the CU Museum of Natural history got a new tool to aid its digitization efforts: a camera and ...

These specimens, known as coal balls, preserve traces of insect burrows, plant fragments and fecal pellets in exquisite detail. “Coal balls offer a glimpse into the past that is unmatched in ...

These research collections include entomology — the study of insects within the field of zoology — which holds 7,500,000 specimens and primary types of over 33,000 species. According to recent ...

Each time Museum entomologist Dr Steen Dupont wanted to compare insect specimens, he faced using expensive and fiddly equipment to repeatedly reposition them so that he could study their details from ...