All these cases of dead butterflies contribute greatly ... specimens may last indefinitely—the oldest known pinned butterfly specimen was collected in 1702. It’s these collected specimens ...

Since a second specimen of this butterfly was never discovered ... and some clues point to it having come from Sierra Leone, in which case it would have been initially collected by Henry Smeathman ...

His father, the renowned conceptual artist On Kawara, had introduced him to butterfly collecting early, and Akito had already amassed about 500 of his own specimens. Seeing the enormous cabinets ...

Each specimen may earn them a penny or two ... By the time a blumei’s final seller mounts the butterfly in a display case, it might go for close to a hundred dollars. Other species ...

Almost immediately, word spread through staff at the Australian museums that there were holes in their butterfly collections. The rarest, most difficult-to-find specimens had simply vanished. Scotland ...

We recently caught up with Claire Mellish, Curator of Fossil Arthropods, to have a look at a sensational butterfly specimen from the Museum's collection. The specimen in question is an exquisite ...

A New Zealand enthusiast spent half a century amassing one of the world's largest private butterfly collections. As death nears, he has handed this life's work of 20,000 specimens to a museum.

A 2,000-strong butterfly collection of "rare scientific ... have taken him several hours to select and take each specimen from its case. Staff later told media they did not know when he had ...

a delicate gray butterfly adorned with white stripes and intricate golden circles has found its final resting place. The specimen, kept behind glass in a display case, represents one of more than ...