Beetles, Mites, Cockroaches Oh My! [Insect Collection Tour]

The insect collection is the largest at The Field Museum, with more than 12 million specimens - only (only?!) 4 million of those are pinned in the dry collection. Crystal is in charge of all...

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We're back with Crystal down here in the pinned Insect collection at The Field Museum! So the Insect Collection is the largest collection in the Field Museum It is, there is about twelve millions insects specimens and there is about four millions specimens right here in this room So the other...eight million are..? - They are downstairs in alcohol So let's go see some of the insects Sure! Our whole collections is stored in cabinets like these. And each of the cabinets has space for... several drawers. So if we open this up. There are about fifteen drawers per cabinet, Wow! And then all of our specimens are stored in tiny... Boxes that we called trays. These trays are especially built just for our collections They're called Field Museum ...