A well-curated collection of local grasshoppers is useful for identification and display. Insect taxonomists often identify species by comparing unknown specimens with identified museum specimens.

Figure 1. Grasshopper collection sites in Wyoming. Most of the collections were made during the Adult Grasshopper and Mormon Cricket Survey conducted in support of the Cooperative Grasshopper ...

A portion of the 13,000 grasshoppers collected by the late Gordon Alexander of CU Boulder. The 65-year-old grasshoppers were compared with contemporary insects to assess the effect of climate ...

The collections are world-wide in scope and include large holdings of medically and agriculturally important species making parts of the collection especially significant ... relationships and ...

The collection began under Drs ... Diplura and Lepidoptera orders and found in the Southwest and Mexico. Each insect is then categorized by family, genus, and, of course, species, and is available ...

Sir Joseph Banks (1743 - 1820) insect collection of 4,000 insects, includes butterflies, flies, bugs and moths. The Banks and Sloane collections are the only two collections maintained separately ...

It comes as entomologists celebrate the 40th anniversary of what is the territory's most significant insect collection. With ...

Members of the original team surveying for grasshoppers below the Flatirons outside Boulder, Colorado, between 1958 and 1960. The initial grasshopper survey was led by Gordon Alexander of CU Boulder.

Entomology students have worked on a variety of research and collections projects, including the ongoing organization, rehousing, and expansion of the Gordon Alexander Orthoptera (Grasshopper) ...