Not many 13-year-olds can say they have an insect collection containing the world’s largest wasp and can also say they caught it with their bare hands. Yet Silt resident and passionate entomologist ...

For the University of Arizona Insect Collection, several million specimens from the southwestern U.S. and around the world just aren’t enough. The department has received two grants totaling more than ...

WASHINGTON — Carl J. Drake spent his life studying bugs, everything from aphids to water striders. When he died in 1965, the entomologist left his life savings and vast insect collection to the ...

There are so many insects in the world it’s impossible to comprehend their actual numbers. There are just too many of them! Even if you could picture how many are out there you wouldn’t want to. Their ...

BROOKINGS, S.D. — To the pedestrian, the Severin-McDaniel Insect Research Collection is just a big room full of cabinets with drawers, filled with dead bugs. But to Paul J. Johnson, the century-old ...