AI accelerates access to insect collections

Researchers at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, together with data scientists, have developed a new method to largely ...
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The $3,000 beetle: Why the titan beetle is the holy grail for insect collectors

Quick Take A Titan beetle specimen can reach a high and profitable valuation, but only after meeting specific requirements. The Titan beetle, a member of the Cerambycidae family, is difficult to find ...
The Harvard Crimson

Decades of Digitizing: The Quest to Reconstruct Seven Million Insects

A new bug is joining the shelves of the Museum of Comparative Zoology’s 7-million-strong insect collection, one made not of antennae and exoskeleton, but of wires and lenses: “Lightning Bug,” a ...
News Tribune

MU’s important collection of insects has a story to tell

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 ...