Recent Articles
From pin to paper
Katherine Child, image technician in the Museum’s Life collections, doesn’t just use photography to capture the beauty of specimens. She is also an artist and has been trying out innovative […]
Why do we need pinned insect specimens?
Since we posted about ten-year-old Sarah’s amazing beetle discovery, we’ve had lots of queries as to why the insect needed to be caught and pinned. It’s a question we’re often […]
One in a million find
The Museum’s collection of British insects already houses over a million specimens, and now it boasts one more special insect. Ten-year-old Sarah Thomas of Abbey Woods Academy in Berinsfield, Oxfordshire […]
