From Science to Status Symbols: Why Antique Insect Collections Can Sell for $20,000

Antique insect collections became exceedingly popular in the 1800s and early 1900s. They were often built as working ...
MassLive

LEGO is retiring popular Insect Collection set and collectors are scrambling to grab the last ones

LEGO doesn’t always make a big announcement when a fan-favorite set is on its way out, but longtime builders know the signs, and LEGO Ideas The Insect Collection ($80) is officially entering its final ...
katc

The new Lego Insect Collection has arrived, complete with a soundtrack

The latest Lego set is here to usher in some Zen. Lego’s newest drop, the Insect Collection, comes with its very own ASMR playlist that you can enjoy while you build. Created by Emmy-nominated foley ...
Michigan Technological University

Michigan Tech Insect Collection Offers Regional History Lesson (As Told by Bugs)

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 ...
UMass Lowell

Bugging Out: Donation of Specimen Collection Boosts Study of Insects

Thousands of preserved bug specimens from around the world have made their way to UMass Lowell to help enhance the study of insects. Biological Sciences Asst. Prof. Christina Kwapich is the new ...
AG Week

South Dakota State University hosts century-old insect collection

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 ...
University of Delaware

Insect discovery hub

UD’s Insect Research Collection provides Solomon Hendrix the tools to turn a passion for identifying insects into a future in entomological discovery At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Solomon ...