Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Establishing transparent provenance is the only way to bypass smuggling risks in modern insect collection trade. Antique insect ...

Researchers and archivists from University of California are asking for help in transcribing field notes and identifying insect specimens dating back over 100 years. Among the collection is a Tierra ...

Researchers at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, together with data scientists, have developed a new method to largely automate the extraction of label information from digitized insect specimens. The ...

Antique insect collections became exceedingly popular in the 1800s and early 1900s. They were often built as working reference libraries, containing pinned and labeled insects so that naturalists ...