“Insects, because their cuticle is made of chitin, which is a really strong material, can essentially last as long as they’re not destroyed by outside forces.” There is much to be learned from ...

The rare 3,800-year-old textile fragments that were dyed with insects of the species Kermes vermilio in antiquity. The fragments were found in 2016 in the Cave of Skulls in the Judaean Desert.

While insects are not viewed as wildlife, ... Insects are essential to the everyday fabric of life, ... specimen in the insects, arachnids and myriapods collection at Chicago’s Field Museum.

Housing insects collected from as long ago as the 1880s, WSU’s M.T. James Entomological Collection is the largest insect museum in the Pacific Northwest, according to its director, Elizabeth ...