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 ...

Why Collectors Pay Big for Rare Leaf Insects

Have you ever heard of the iconic leaf insect? Worth hundreds—even thousands—of dollars, these fascinating bugs can ...
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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 ...
Purdue University

Purdue to showcase robot digitizing insect collection

Jennifer Zaspel, assistant professor, and Jeffrey Holland, associate professor, both in the Purdue Department of Entomology, pose with the robot called BugEye. Using 3-D imaging, BugEye is an ...
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Things Get Buggy with the New LEGO Ideas The Insect Collection

LEGO collectors have loved growing and building their brick gardens with the new floral and plant sets. However, things are getting a new creepy crawler release that will display beautifully with ...
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 ...
NPR

Octogenarian Couple Donates $10 Million Insect Collection

It's a love story for the ages: a boy, a girl and more than a million bugs. Lois and Charlie O'Brien, two octogenarian entomologists, have spent their life together chasing insects around the world — ...