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New publication highlights the value of collection specimens and the importance of making specimen level data widely available to the scientific community.
A single specimen of Carpenter…
The 2020 Museum of Biological Diversity’s annual Open House, planned for Saturday, March 21, was suspended until further notice. This disappointing decision was made after considering University…
Specimen drawers from the Triplehorn Insect Collection among others are featured in an exhibit going on at Hopkins Hall Gallery. The exhibit, curated by Ardine Nelson, Professor…
Check it out! Our recent citizen science expedition on Notes from Nature made the College of Arts and Sciences News today. Notes from Nature, one of the many…
A new genus and species of the seldom-studied platygastroid subfamily Sceliotrachelinae is described from Australia. Calixomeria is a tiny (less than 1 mm long!), uniparental (females…
Evie Moran & Jordan Reynolds, two artists associated with the Triplehorn Insect Collection, are presenting their collection-based, science…
Arctic Oeneis butterfly specimens from the Triplehorn Insect Collection at Ohio State are now up on Notes from Nature, a citizen science platform that connects museum collections with the…
"Wasps to Human Surgery: Inspiration From Nature", video created by Jessika Raisor (Columbus College of Art and Design) in collaboration with Huayan Chen and Luciana Musetti (Ohio…
Chen, H-y, Talamas, EJ, Masner, L, Johnson, NF (2018). Revision of the world species of the genus Chromoteleia Ashmead (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae, Scelioninae).
Huayan Chen defended his PhD thesis on Monday, July 2, with a seminar entitle "Systematics and Evolution of the Superfamily Platygastroidea (Insecta: Hymenoptera)."
Reporter Marion Renault visited the Johnson Lab and the Triplehorn Insect Collection to learn about parasitoid wasps, a megadiverse group of fascinating and tremendously important insects that are…
Chen, H-y, Talamas, EJ, Masner, L, Johnson, NF (2018). Revision of the world species of the genus Habroteleia Kieffer (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae, Scelioninae). ZooKeys…
We have reached the first big milestone in the LepNet project: the skipper butterfly specimens in the collection, 15,761 specimens to be precise, are now in our online database and freely…
The Triplehorn Insect Collection is featured in the May issue of the Columbus Monthly Magazine. The article, entitled 'Winging it at the Ohio State University', highlights the…
Dr. Luciana Musetti, Curator of the Triplehorn Insect Collection, has received the Distinguished Staff Award, Ohio State University's highest honor for…
Nesheim KC, Masner L, Johnson NF (2017). The Phanuromyia galeata species group (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae, Telenominae): shining a lantern into an unexplored corner of…
Ethan Calvert, undergraduate student researcher here at the Triplehorn Insect Collection & the Johnson Lab, presented a scientific poster at the prestigious Denman Undergraduate Research Forum on…
Popovici, Vilhelmsen, Masner, Mikó & Johnson. (2017). Maxillolabial complex in scelionids (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea): morphology and phylogenetic implications. Insect…
Chen H-y, Masner L, Johnson NF (2017). New World species of the genus Calliscelio Ashmead (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae, Scelioninae). ZooKeys 648: 1-136.
This new…
Staff and students associated with the Triplehorn collection attended the 2016 Entomological Collections Network & the International Congress of Entomology in Orlando, Florida.
Huyan Chen, graduate student in Norman Johnson's lab and collection associate, won the first prize on the Graduate Student Oral Competition: Morphology, Systematics, and Phylogeny:…
In antecipation of the emergence of the 17-year cicadas of Brood V here in Ohio, The Columbus Dispatch came to visit the Triplehorn Insect Collection to see what other species of cicadas are known…
On October 15th the Triplehorn Insect Collection received the David Parshall Butterfly Collection, a gift of over 50,000 pinned specimens, plus many thousands more preserved in envelopes. This is…
Museums around the globe, including at Ohio State University, are trying to harness the power of digital technology to make available collections that have long lay dormant on shelves and in dusty…
The work of curatorial staff and volunteers of the Triplehorn Insect Collection is featured in the Columbus Dispatch article 'Making a dent in the backlog: Volunteers help catalog specimens in…
Citizen scientists tracking Ohio bumblebees: Curator Luciana Musetti is featured in an article in the Columbus Dispatch ‘Nature’s barometer’ facing challenges, possibly due to…
Taxonomic research is crucial for the early detection of invasive species and the rapid development and deployment of effective biological control programs. The publication by Talamas, Johnson &…