The Museum has over 25 million pinned insects in the collection with extensive taxonomic and geographic information dating back 300 years The Digital Collections Programme has refined our pinned ...

CHAMPAIGN — A single leafhopper is small, but the task at hand is enormous. Scientists at the Illinois Natural History Survey in Champaign, part of the Prairie Research Institute at the University of ...

The Natural History Museum in London has a gargantuan task ahead: the mass digitization of its sprawling collections. Over the next five years, the museum plans to scan more than 20 million pinned ...

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.

Scientists from the Natural History Museum London are facing the challenges of mass digitization of museum specimens by inventing a creative, functional and most importantly quite cheap way to capture ...

Insect specimen ready for crowdsourcing (all images courtesy Calbug/Notes from Nature) Bugs number in the billions in natural history museums worldwide, but the information embedded in their label ...

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Who said scientists are not creative? Biologists have proved such statements wrong with the invention of a creative, functional and most importantly quite cheap pinned insect manipulator made entirely ...