Category: Archived Content

New Collection manager, Dr. Tommy McElrath, just arrived, replacing Chris Grinter who is now insect collection manager at the California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco. Please contact Tommy for all collection-related business.

Diane Szafoni, a GIS coordinator at INHS, discovered that her great-great-uncle by marriage, Andrew Bolter, donated his entire insect collection to the University of Illinois in 1900. This valuable collection included thousands of beetles, butterflies, and other insects.