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 ...
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 ...
WEST LAFAYETTE — Purdue University's Department of Entomology is using a special robot to tackle the daunting task of digitizing the school's collection of some 2 million insect specimens. The robot, ...
BERLIN — In a brightly lit room on the third floor of the Museum of Natural History here, stacks of wooden drawers are covered in glass, some panes so dusty that it is difficult to discern exactly ...
For more than two decades Dr. Richard Glatz has been on a one-man mission to catalog Kangaroo Island's insects. Since starting the collection in 1998, Richard has collected about 80,000 insect ...
On the south side of campus, a wealth of knowledge sits in dark rooms, stored away in jars and drawers. This knowledge is in the form of specimens — over 9 million to be exact — including insects, ...