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Going where the wasps are.
On the previous post we talked a bit about visits to the Museum of Biological Diversity and more specifically to the Triplehorn Insect Collection. Today I want to turn around and show you what we see...
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Ohio Young Birders visit
Eight Ohio Young Birders visited the insect and tetrapods collections at the Museum of Biological Diversity on Saturday (April 9) morning. Ohio Young Birders with Assoc Prof Jackie Augustine (holding a...
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Show stoppers
The specimen digitization project that we are about to start at the Triplehorn Insect Collection will create a large body of information about butterflies. Those data, combined with the data from all...
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What We Learned From Our Insect Curation Internship
Last semester we of the Triplehorn Insect Collection offered our first Insect Curation Internship. I was pleasantly surprised with the interest generated by it. There were over 380 visits to the...
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Interns on Internship
As we mentioned in our previous post, at the conclusion of the semester we asked our interns to share their impressions of the time they spent with us. We have taken the liberty of using some of their...
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Everyday Life at the Museum-part 1
Visitors to our Annual Open House – by the way, the next Open House is coming up soon on Saturday April 22, 2017 – often wonder what everyday life in our museum collections looks like. During the Open...
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Our big day is tomorrow
Tomorrow, Saturday April 22, from 10 AM – 4 PM we will open our doors and welcome all of you to visit our hidden treasures in the natural history collections of The Ohio State University. Stop by and...
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Backyard Bug Explorer
Visitors touring the Triplehorn Insect Collection are invariably drawn to the biggest, longest, most colorful creatures that we have among our four million specimens. Giant walking sticks, Goliath...
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Dragonflies and Damselflies of Ohio
Dragonfly at Magee Marsh Wildlife Area. The Triplehorn Insect Collection is beginning a collaborative project to survey the dragonflies and damselflies of Ohio. These spectacular aerial predators are...
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Explaining Science – taxonomy of parasitoid wasps
Professor Norm Johnson, Director of our C.A. Triplehorn Insect Collection, studies systematics of parasitoid wasps and so do his students. Graduate student Elijah Talamas collected many insect...
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