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A very special specimen of Carpenter bee
New publication highlights the value of collection specimens and the importance of making specimen level data widely available to the scientific community.
A single specimen of Carpenter…
2020 Museum Open House is suspended
The 2020 Museum of Biological Diversity’s annual Open House, planned for Saturday, March 21, was suspended until further notice. This disappointing decision was made after considering…
Specimen drawers through an artist's lens
Specimen drawers from the Triplehorn Insect Collection among others are featured in an exhibit going on at Hopkins Hall Gallery. The exhibit, curated by Ardine Nelson,…
Triplehorn Insect Collection asks public to help label butterflies
Check it out! Our recent citizen science expedition on Notes from Nature made the College of Arts and Sciences News today. Notes from Nature, one of the many people-powered…
New publication: on tiny parasitic wasp Calixomeria
A new genus and species of the seldom-studied platygastroid subfamily Sceliotrachelinae is described from Australia. Calixomeria is a tiny (less than 1 mm long!), uniparental (females…
Art & Science meet at Hypotheses!
Evie Moran & Jordan Reynolds, two artists associated with the Triplehorn Insect Collection, are presenting their collection-based, science-inspired art work at "Hypotheses: Art…
Arctic Oeneis butterflies from Ohio State part of citizen science network
Arctic Oeneis butterfly specimens from the Triplehorn Insect Collection at Ohio State are now up on Notes from Nature, a citizen science platform that connects museum collections with…
We're finalists on the 2018 "Youtube Your Entomology" Contest!
"Wasps to Human Surgery: Inspiration From Nature", video created by Jessika Raisor (Columbus College of Art and Design) in collaboration with Huayan Chen and Luciana Musetti (Ohio State University…
New publication: Revision of Chromoteleia
Chen, H-y, Talamas, EJ, Masner, L, Johnson, NF (2018). Revision of the world species of the genus Chromoteleia Ashmead (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae, Scelioninae). ZooKeys 778:…