The Museum has over 25 million pinned insects in the collection with extensive taxonomic and geographic information dating back 300 years The Digital Collections Programme has refined our pinned ...

Big Bee Bonanza is seeking Virtual Volunteers! Interested in supporting bee research and conservation? You can BEE part of science by becoming a community volunteer and transcribing specimen labels: ...

We are digitising more than half a million British and Irish butterflies and moths, as a pilot for the digitisation of all pinned collections. The project is the first pilot for the mass digitisation ...

A well-curated collection of local grasshoppers is useful for identification and display. Insect taxonomists often identify species by comparing unknown specimens with identified museum specimens.

Digitization is a crucially important part of every natural history museum’s work these days. Not only do museums house tens of thousands of specimens, but they are striving every day to turn those ...

While checking museum records, Dr Robert Mesibov found there were occasional errors in the dates and places for specimens he had collected many years before. He was not surprised. "It's easy to make ...