Mosquitoes, wasps, spiders, bees, beetles, butterflies, flies... these are just some of the insects and bugs scientists study at the National Museum of Natural History. This video collection focuses in on some of our favorite creepy, crawly, amazing bugs.
With over 35 million specimens, the Smithsonian’s U.S. National Entomological Collection is one of the largest insect collections in the world. Research in the Department of Entomology is primarily collection-based and focuses on systematics in the broadest sense, including basic taxonomy, comparative morphology and behavior, and life history of insects, as well as evolutionary and population biology, phylogenetics, biogeography, biodiversity, ecology, behavior, and molecular genetic studies.
The Department of Entomology at the National Museum of Natural History includes research scientists and museum specialists from the Smithsonian Institution as well as the U.S.D.A. Systematic Entomology Lab and the Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit of the Department of Defense.
