Aaron Spriggs, Zoology collections
assistant, and entomology volunteers Barbara Bartell, Chuck Harp,
and David Bettman have been working on rehousing and uncrowding the
butterflies and moths, or Lepidoptera, to prepare for their
eventual move into the new Rocky Mountain Science Collections
Center. The goal is to rehouse approximately 75,000 moths and
butterflies before the move and to make this collection accessible
for more than 300 international visiting researchers who will be
attending the International Lepidoptera Society meeting at the
Museum in summer 2012.
The team have nearly completed the
butterfly rehousing, accounting for about 45% of the Lepidoptera
collection. Aaron is taking on Saturniid moths, unshinglng
these large, spectacular creatures to prevent their wings and
scales from rubbing when researchers access them and when we move
them.
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