Smithsonian Magazine

For National Pollinator Week, Learn Why the National Museum of Natural History is Using a State-of-the-Art Conveyor Belt System to Digitize Thousands of Insect Speci…

The ongoing effort captures high-quality images and collection data in seconds, creating an online database of bees, beetles, ...
The Harvard Crimson

Decades of Digitizing: The Quest to Reconstruct Seven Million Insects

A new bug is joining the shelves of the Museum of Comparative Zoology’s 7-million-strong insect collection, one made not of antennae and exoskeleton, but of wires and lenses: “Lightning Bug,” a ...
insider.si.edu

How the Smithsonian is digitizing 325,000 pollinator insects

Bee specimen mounted and digitized. The record of this individual can be seen at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History website. One in every three bites of food you eat depends on ...
insider.si.edu

Inside How We're Digitizing 325,000 Insects

One in every three bites of food you eat depends on pollinators! 🪲 Heard the buzz? Our Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History and Smithsonian Digitization Program Office are digitizing ...
The Southern Illinoisan

Illinois researchers to digitize insect collection

CHAMPAIGN (AP) - Scientists based in Champaign with the Illinois Natural History Survey are part of an effort to digitize photographs of millions of insects. The ...
KEYT

UCSB Races to Digitize Bee Collections for A.I. Era

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) - Tiny wings. Hidden details. A world rarely seen is coming into focus. “Insects are really numerous. There’s millions of insects on the planet. They’re incredibly ...