Entomology Collection

The Entomology Collection was originally distributed between the Entomology Building [1] (now Harker Hall), and the Natural History Building, but today the entire collection is together again in the Natural History Building. [2] By 1935 it was comprised of: [3]

50,000 pinned specimens, representing about 3,500 common species; another series of 15,00 specimens, each hermetically sealed in glass, representing the life stages and injury of all the major American economic insects; about 3,000 vials of the immature stages of insects; and as o the MacGillivray collection of Tenthredinoidea, consisting of about 1,000 species and 400 type specimens