COLUMBIA, Mo. -- About 80 percent of all animals on the planet are insects, and the Enns Entomology Museum at the University of Missouri has one of the most important collections in the world. The ...

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 ...

The Universit of Iowa now has an insect collection from Iowa Wesleyan. (UI photo) What may be the largest collection of Iowa insects ever assembled was at risk of being dumped in a dumpster, but it’s ...

Biologists at the University of Costa Rica have uncovered 16 new species of leafhoppers after examining insect collections that sat untouched in museums for over three decades. The find also includes ...

Scott Shaw shows a sample of insects during a class expedition to the cloud forest of Ecuador. He is the 2025 recipient of UW’s John P. Ellbogen Lifetime Teaching Award. (Nina Zitani Photo) Longtime ...