A well-curated collection of local grasshoppers is useful for identification and display. Insect taxonomists often identify species by comparing unknown specimens with identified museum specimens.

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 ...

Charlie and Lois O’Brien spent 60 years amassing a collection of 1.25 million insects as part of their research, he working one side of the trail and she collecting on the other. A day in the field ...

SANTA CRUZ >> This summer is the first in decades that Randall Morgan isn’t roaming Santa Cruz County’s hillsides with his butterfly net and magnifying glasses, collecting plant and insect specimens.