OSU Triplehorn Insect Collection

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Program 60 welcomes Ohio seniors to audit dozens of courses in different subject matters. Learn more at the link in the comments. 📚⬇️

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Robber flies are exceptional hunters. Some specimens in our collection were caught still holding their prey and, in those cases, hunter & prey specimens were pinned together.

Check out this stunning Harlequin beetle specimen from our collection! 💓

Check out our new blog post "New Year, New Drawers, Huge Milestone".

New Year, New Drawers, Huge Milestone One of our primary curatorial goals for the collection in the past 25 years has been the replacement of old, non-archival materials (rusty metal cabinets, poorly sealed drawers, and cork-lined unit…

Today we received a large batch of new USNM-style drawers. 🎊

We had a wonderful time at our Holiday party. Always exciting to see what interesting gifts the Secret Santas bring in & they didn’t disappoint.

Bittersweet to say goodbye to student assistants who are graduating & moving on. Wishing them the best. ❤️‍🔥

2026 Museum Open House is coming!! Help us design a t-shirt for the event. Submission deadline: 01/15/2026. Contest limited to OSU students only, please.

On the latest Pinning Block blog post, Curatorial Assistant Jenna Helkey talks about her curatorial work on our longhorn beetle collection. Check it out!

Behind Every Beetle: The Complete Story of Cerambycidae Curation As I approach the end of my second year as a Curatorial Assistant at the Triplehorn Insect Collection, I wanted to reflect on the experience of the largest and most comprehensive assignment I have …

Butterfly collection update: curation continues strong. Our skilled & enthusiastic staff are also taking pics of all our specimens of the genus Colias (Order Lepidoptera: Family Pieridae). ❤️‍🔥👏🏼

Such important work!! Specimens collected during the Ohio Bee Survey are being deposited here at the collection. As soon as the studies are published the specimen data for the thousands of bees and some of the bycatch will be available on our online database.

Ohio State, State of Ohio harness skills to save wildlife Just how many species of bees live in Ohio? Based on other states, estimates land between 400 and 450. Until recently, there hasn’t been a way to be sure.Thanks to the Ohio Biodiversity Conservation Partnership (OBCP), the Ohio Bee Survey is entering its fifth year of data collection. More than 33...